The transition from painkiller to street drug is insidiously gradual.
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"I think it happened very slowly and insidiously," he said.
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And perhaps most insidiously, some hackers just want to show off.
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More insidiously, it targets the independence of an entire judicial system.
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Insidiously, though, the former avenue is becoming more difficult to accomplish.
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Most insidiously, we think of fertility troubles as rare and unnatural.
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An insidiously saccharine ballad by the smooth-jazz saxophonist Najee came on.
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"Social conditioning works insidiously even when you're liberal and aware" says Aanchal.
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CRISPR could be used to engineer a virus that insidiously infects unborn children.
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Unlike, say, locusts, which simply raze entire fields, stinkbugs wreak their havoc insidiously.
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But, more insidiously, the ad implies that Osaka's skin tone is worth changing.
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We Americans do not grasp how insidiously Trump has accustomed us to malignancy.
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But Ben (Jim Parrack), a project leader at the firm, is more insidiously harmful.
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More insidiously, the new folks added (cue the scary organ music) a lap pool.
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Addiction happens insidiously, always to people who think it could never happen to them.
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Insidiously, Zika can breach the placental barrier and disrupt the development of the fetal brain.
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Director Elia Kazan masterfully crafts scenes that reveal bigotry both overt and often insidiously subtle.
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It happens that quickly, that insidiously: a zombie apocalypse, if the zombies wore nutmeg cologne.
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The West has pretended to not notice or, more insidiously, has been a willing partner.
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It shows how insidiously an awareness of unjustly imposed limits eats away at a person.
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This trend, encouraged insidiously by Russia, may be the biggest threat, eroding the alliance from within.
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We need to be explicit about this, because I think this is quietly and insidiously happening.
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I hadn't grasped the degree to which a sense of shame had insidiously undergirded my life.
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Only if we're willing to accept a permanent underclass and insidiously shore up the status quo.
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Insidiously and mischievously, it's also possible to lock yourself out of future conversations with certain answers.
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The women whose careers were insidiously impeded by harassers and abusers will never get that time back.
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That this was lost on the WTA proves how sexism insidiously persists in the world of sports.
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Which is one reason why the company's "Make Google Do It" ad blitz is so insidiously clever.
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Perhaps because judges are the greatest impediments to autocratic rule, Trump has singled them out most insidiously.
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"They are insidiously smart," Synder, who is now a senior adviser for Cambridge Global Advisors, told Hill.
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And like many of us, she is using a device that insidiously advertises itself with every message.
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It insidiously assumes that there aren't any — that unlike men, women aren't capable of achieving artistic greatness.
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It was "the most portentously and insidiously bad building in The City," wrote the San Francisco Examiner Magazine.
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Meek's legal team wants the judge to buy into the current thinking ... that solitary insidiously destroys the psyche.
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There have been purges and treasons in the past; now what is demanded—and insidiously enforced—is discipline.
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But the symbiosis between hospitals and politicians operates most insidiously in the subtle fueling of each other's interests.
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Second, and more insidiously, it is a plan to legitimize Israel's ongoing effort to seize additional Palestinian land.
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These kinds of tales can insidiously lead middle-class people today to blame themselves more for not flourishing.
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Or, more insidiously, if there was a security issue with your smart lock, allowing anyone access into your home.
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And — insidiously — that's apt to give the party a long-term political stake in further demonizing the Russian government.
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It turns out that an actor in the real world is insidiously working to destroy us, bit by bit.
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"The risks that were taken in the Western Pacific accumulated over time, and did so insidiously," the report said.
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For millions like her in poorer parts of Africa, Asia and other regions, this devastating heart disease began insidiously.
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And the same forces that decimated Splinter are working insidiously to impact industries as varied as healthcare and retail.
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Adults who encourage young boys to play a sport that is so insidiously damaging are engaging in child abuse.
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And this kitchen gossip birthed a bogeyman in my brain that whispered insidiously, over and over: Men will hurt you.
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Anhedonia insidiously drains joy from formerly enjoyable social interactions and experiences—and worse, replaces it with dullness, dread, or apprehension.
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Most insidiously, we still don't know what the greater implications are of deploying facial recognition searches on a large scale.
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It posits that slavery might insidiously take over your very body, but there will always be the possibility of escape.
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But this comment sticks out both for its ignorance of history, and for insidiously playing into the rhetoric of holocaust deniers.
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For two decades, R. Kelly's predatory appetite for young women has been an insidiously well-known secret within the music industry.
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Yet I am troubled by Mr. Paulikas's emphasis on "society's widening affirmation," which insidiously shifts the focus back to straight society.
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For many women, the discomfort arrives so insidiously that they don't link it to the hormone changes of menopause, doctors said.
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Sylvia Khoury's insidiously sharp new play arrives as the eight-year-old conflict is making fresh headlines in the United States.
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Its insidiously pleasant melodies, impossible to dislodge from your memory, can leave you contemplating our environmental crisis for days on end.
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The story ends, insidiously, in our current time of relative plenty, when the rains flow again and the water mining slows.
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Some of Janney's most harrowing and insidiously funny scenes are opposite 11-year-old actor McKenna Grace, who plays a young Tonya.
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"A curious, disconcerting and sometimes insidiously effective greatest hits tableau," was British newspaper The Telegraph's summary by its film critic Tim Robey.
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But many southern Republicans feel beleaguered by more than one ruling: they see Washington as at once insidiously liberal and hopelessly gridlocked.
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Dots are deceptively, insidiously simple: They are either there or they're not; they contain a number, and that number has a value.
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One truth I've come to understand too late in life is how thoroughly and insidiously our lives are shaped by gender norms.
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It's an unsettling tale of money, fame and seduction, insidiously marshalled not just at young boys but their equally star-struck parents.
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It gave us the iconic Cool Girl speech and allowed us to put a name on a rising and insidiously creepy archetype.
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This item insidiously ensures the FCC will never be able to fully grasp the harm it may have unleashed on the internet ecosystem.
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More insidiously, some of us may feel inclined to flat-out blame ourselves, and specifically our flirting game, for our quiet sex life.
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In the years since Mark Zuckerberg infamously declared that privacy was no longer "a social norm," his controversial statement has insidiously become truth.
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But turning civilian aircraft into missiles, like bombs in shoes or underwear, are essentially one-time events: insidiously clever but not endlessly repeatable.
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HBO's Chernobyl miniseries is infused with this profound sense of sorrow, which infiltrated people's lives as insidiously as radioactive particles penetrated their bodies.
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Most alarming, she had become obsessively, insidiously reliant on Dr. Ablow's affirmation, a circumstance she and her lawyer would later suspect he engineered.
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At the same time, we must remember that the efforts to detain and deport operate insidiously throughout our country, every day of the year.
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Firearms are such a staple of US culture and so insidiously pervasive that you can't talk about US popular culture without dealing with them.
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There's nothing left for this once vivacious, insidiously confident force but to crawl miserably into bed like the feeble old woman she really is.
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Regardless, listeners can always rely on the duo to release some of the most evil, uncompromising, and otherwise insidiously heavy music in the genre.
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And so Donald Trump's legacy spreads insidiously to the like-minded: Truth need no longer be sought when a self-serving story will do.
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Eleanor Wasserberg's new novel Foxlowe is an insidiously creepy little book, modern in its understanding of psychology but purely Victorian gothic in its atmosphere.
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Since technology companies insidiously frame digital privacy as a trade-off, there's an implication that we must sacrifice something precious to gain something precious.
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Insidiously laundering smears, negative memes and caricatures through local news to help pick political winners and losers would be straight from the Sinclair playbook.
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However, the racism they were met with in New England was insidiously destructive, if not as physically violent as the persecution they left behind.
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In Sylvia Khoury's insidiously sharp new play "Power Strip," on Lincoln Center Theater's LCT3 stage, Yasmin and the would-be thief, Khaled, do get together.
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Levitsky and Ziblatt show how democracies have collapsed elsewhere — not just through violent coups, but more commonly (and insidiously) through a gradual slide into authoritarianism.
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But all of these proposed laws set a menacing precedent against peaceful criticism online, or, more insidiously, against nonbiased viewpoints that don't support the ruling government.
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That begins with episode 1, where an undersupplied, sloppily staffed Cruiser goes through a mysterious warp zone and immediately comes under attack from insidiously clever aliens.
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Insidiously, strep A bacteria uses our own body against us, recruiting a human protein called C4BP which tricks the body into calling off an immune response.
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More insidiously, people are also inhaling noxious fine particles measuring less than 2.5 microns, or a fifth the size of a particle of dust or pollen.
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" This charge enforces a narrow view of masculinity -- demanding that boys "man up" -- and delivers an insidiously dangerous message that girls and women are "less than.
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Similarly, as the case of Myanmar shows, the colonial origins of the modern secular state have, in some ways, insidiously fostered the hardening of religious identities.
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Though to be honest, even this seemingly innocuous form of ambition serves an insidiously dictatorial desire: to change what other people think, and how they see.
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The Jones Act compounds the landed costs of goods on the island, including food, relief materials and, insidiously, fuel oils used to power the electricity grid.
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This same category insidiously pits Asians against other "real minorities" in a manner that sows divisiveness between people of color and benefits only the racial majority.
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What I also find troubling about issues like this is how they insidiously bring out the xenophobe in otherwise liberal people on both sides of the argument.
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Though it's been labeled as a human rights violation by the WHO, FGM is much more insidiously widespread than most of us, particularly in the West, realize.
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And like other moderation efforts leaning on AI, it's going to miss actual toxic content and remove content that is harmless or, more insidiously, educational and empowering.
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Outlets can insidiously shape narratives, while still appearing like "real television journalism," based on what stories they choose to cover and which guests are included on panels.
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Students, tech engineers, and asylum seekers are all under the same suspicion of insidiously undermining the country—of taking rather than giving, of harming rather than helping.
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If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them.
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As Mr Snyder shows, the lines coming from Moscow during Ukraine's conflict have shown a bizarre disconnection from reality—but have been in many quarters insidiously persuasive.
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And more insidiously, that's because of LaVerdere, who encourages his students to mold themselves in his image and who looms large over Ben's subconscious as an adult.
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Not everyone agreed they were insidiously evil; The Outline's Laura June Topolsky called some of them "crazy but only to adult eyes," and by YouTube standards, downright harmless.
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And with facial recognition being insidiously installed in mundane places (like gas stations) in order to advertise, secure, and identify us, this may be sooner than we think.
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His affable, game-show-host looks and just-folks manner have been insidiously successful in blunting the impact of a past pocked with racism, Jew-hating and revisionisms.
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"People are often quick to dismiss the real-world impact of memes, but it's naive to not acknowledge the fact that memes, perhaps insidiously, influence society," Constable said.
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The Pictures artists came of age in this disillusioning period, sharply aware that the images and narratives they'd been nurtured on were not only bogus but insidiously coercive.
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As Milov's book so damningly shows, larger forces have long been quietly and insidiously shaping so much of daily life: privatization, brilliant advertising, the emergence of late capitalism.
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Instead, what it looks like they did was fuck all of nothing, bided their time, planned their return, and most insidiously, distorted allyship into a defense of continued abuse.
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" In Christianity Today, Jen Pollock Michel wrote that "While the self-fulfillment narrative isn't new, here's what is: how easily and insidiously it gets baptized as a Christian story.
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In the four decades since the internet expanded beyond its military origins, a clear playbook has emerged for denying reality — and it's one that is insidiously easy to use.
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A lion may have a fearsome roar but it's the tiny mosquito, one that insidiously spreads disease among the weak and vulnerable, that kills the most humans every year.
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Yet as Filipovic notes, this disregard for the ambitions of women has always been a foundational tenet of American democracy, woven insidiously into the rhetoric of the Declaration of Independence.
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And that's what Dumplin' gets right: Fatphobia insidiously ebbs and flows to impact the lives of fat women and girls, even the ones who aren't drowning in low self-esteem.
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Wilson is No. 2 — not because he vetoed the Volstead Act, but because he rode into office in 1912 on a campaign song borrowed from an insidiously infectious whiskey jingle.
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Most insidiously of all, though our cars no longer spew lead into the atmosphere, all that old lead from the gasoline of the 235s, '2165s, '353s, and '70s didn't vanish.
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We need to be explicit about this because I think this is quietly and insidiously happening, and we know one of the reasons men have gotten promoted over women ... Social issues.
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If there was a disorienting note, it was the fake snow that drifted down from the rafters, insidiously clinging to clothes and shoes and hair and, one hoped, not one's lungs.
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In an attempt to contain the party, the government and leading opposition parties have appealed to anti-immigrant sentiment, allowing Alternative for Germany's ideology to insidiously shape German politics and media.
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Mazzoli's score supports that dynamic by wedding strong lyric invention to an unsettled, insidiously dissonant chamber-orchestra texture that evokes the jagged beauty both of Skye and of Bess's inner landscape.
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Sure, the company had insidiously started a "nicotine arms race" with their hyper-concentrated, addicting pods, but vaping finally looked chic, like something you'd see in Blade Runner rather than Battlefield Earth.
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"Kitty Green understands that the exercise of corporate bureaucratic power – so often structured against women and insidiously mobilized without fanfare against a vulnerable workforce", says the film's producer James Schamus to Deadline.
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As with everything Apple does, the health apps are wonderfully designed and insidiously guilt-inducing, and the ability to carry out an ad hoc ECG trace is both remarkable and utterly terrifying.
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Parker was poised to receive the bulk of the praise and prestige, but others in the film — including Hammer, who played an insidiously benevolent slave owner — would be caught up in its wake.
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Over the years I have often lamented, if I knew then what I know now … That being said, an alcohol-laced society seems to be insidiously getting more and more normal and acceptable.
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Many other times the draft slide, real or not, occurs for more cynical reasons, whether it's an injury that bodes ill for long-term production, insidiously vague "character concerns", or recreational drug use.
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She had considered running for office in the past — "our rights were being taken away insidiously over the last few years," she said, citing Republican attacks on health care access and Planned Parenthood.
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He also captures how insidiously violence alters the calculus of daily life: how windows with beautiful views become a liability; how funerals become smaller, more rushed affairs because of fighting in the streets.
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As the distance tightens, as Amanda feels that her daughter is closer than ever, she will learn the grim and fateful lesson that maternal instincts count for little in an insidiously poisoned world.
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What's scary is that it's been going on for so long and has widened out so insidiously to the extent that this "war on terror" is being fought in seven or eight different countries.
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It didn't happen overnight, but what was once an insidiously positive stereotype of cultural superiority has shifted in a landscape where Asians see themselves as part of a bigger conversation about race in America.
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Race has infected discussions of public expenditure in America so insidiously and for so long that it is fair to wonder whether Obamacare would have aroused the same passions had its progenitor been white.
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Surface Tension comes down to warring necessities: we need to feel connected on a human level, but we also need the devices that insidiously contribute to a climate of virtual, rather than physical, connection.
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That's why most right-wing propaganda about a notional Islamic war against the West focuses on "stealth jihad" — a war so insidiously quiet we might not notice we're in it until it's too late!
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It's not just that they're ignoring the scientific consensus, they're doing so insidiously: moving from the baldfaced absurdity of "climate change isn't happening" to the intellectually dishonest position that scientists are still not in agreement.
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Perhaps most insidiously, he is attacking the two main energy regulators, accusing them of operating on behalf of the private sector against state firms (which was part of their remit), and vowing to "renew" them.
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What that decision did was allow the fossil fuel industry to not only spend more insidiously, but also threaten to spend unlimited amounts of money against anybody who dared to cross them on climate change.
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Over the past couple weeks, I asked several players and coaches what differences they see in present-day Rondo compared to the four-time All-Star who insidiously ravaged opposing teams half a decade ago.
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Evangelical Christians believed that there was a secret underground of Satanists rising to power, insidiously infiltrating the minds of teenagers through expressions of the occult like heavy metal music, Dungeons and Dragons, and Freddy Kruger.
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If this insidiously exclusionary view of culture goes the distance, it will take us back to a separate-but-equal reality that this country has spent the past half-century clawing our way out of.
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More insidiously, these policies let politicians and taxpayers, who do not want their tax dollars redirected to the "inner city", off the hook from having to invest money in upgrading neighborhood schools in low-income communities.
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This exceptionalist amnesia insidiously shapes and enables the hateful anti-immigrant and anti-Latinx sentiment in this country, extending from the El Paso massacre in August to the ongoing hunting, caging and separation of migrant families.
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After all, Blut und Boden worked so powerfully — and insidiously — as a Nazi ideology not just because it privileged certain bloodlines among others, but also because it harkened back to an ahistorical, nationalist notion of rural idyll.
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So when I see the uniformly immaculate and insidiously similar rooms serving as platforms for the digital lives around me, I see the trickle-down effect of a world that coaches girls always to accommodate and impress.
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Positioning one group of low-wage workers against another group of low-wage workers is an insidiously effective method of fomenting resentment and tensions among workers of different racial and ethnic backgrounds, which only buttresses the status quo.
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The decision in Hellerstedt was a huge ideological victory: a vital affirmation that access to safe and legal abortion is constitutionally protected in the US, and a sharp rebuke to Republicans who were insidiously working to erode that right.
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The creepiest and most compelling strand in Vox is the way Jean has internalized the command to speak as little as possible, and the way she sees the same thing happening to her daughter — but faster and more insidiously.
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They are comfort coma-inducing as they insidiously invade your psyche and innocently usher you down the path of procrastination justification, all the while portraying you to your peers, direct managers, and corporate leaders as disappointed, unfulfilled, and malcontent.
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In most cases that I have read about, possession occurs insidiously and has been attributed to attempts by a person, or persons, to attempt communication with the spirit world via spirit boards, known more commonly as the Ouija board.
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What's most interesting about the track is the way it rewires 80s dance sounds into something that feels alluringly toxic—almost passively or insidiously so, like lush veneer peeling, cracking, and rubbing off onto your hands as you hold it.
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Photo: GettyThere are ways in which digital forensics experts can identify if an image has been manipulated, but there's certainly room for improvement, especially at a time when faking images is only getting easier, more realistic, and, most insidiously, more coordinated.
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Should we do it X way, or Y?" all too often lead to "Let's think this over… let's have a call about this next week…" or, most insidiously, "let's research what other people have done and then talk about it again.
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Those barriers insidiously reduce the earning potential and odds of successful, productive citizenship for the tens of thousands of individuals with criminal records, and they hurt society by shrinking the talent pool and tax revenues that flow from gainful employment.
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And it shows how insidiously violence against women is baked into our culture, so that even those who seem to want to fight against it feel compelled to look the other way once it stares them directly in the face.
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There's Twilight's Bella, for instance, whose fetus insidiously takes control of her mind and body, ultimately leading to Bella's transformation into a vampire, and The Host's Melanie, whose body is taken over by an alien that wants to steal her life.
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Joyful, creative, insidiously catchy pop music has long been one of Sweden's top exports, and its stars like ABBA, Ace of Base, and Robyn along with its super producers like Dr. Luke and Stargate all bow to Swedish pop god Max Martin.
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Opinion Columnist Reducing Pete Buttigieg's struggle to attract black support solely to black homophobia is not only erroneous, it is a disgusting, racist trope, secretly nursed and insidiously whispered by white liberals with contempt for the very black people they court and need.
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That is where the "new nationalism" rising today will lead: to rich, holistic internal cultures, to a return to "heritage," to local solutions and historic traditions of faith to replace utopian globalist abstractions that have insidiously escaped our grip in the recent century.
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And more insidiously, in January of this year, it was discovered that a number of IP addresses linked to government offices—including the U.S. Senate, the Navy, and the Executive Office of the President—were associated with active users on a revenge porn site.
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With her exhibition at Project for Empty Space, Imprison Her Soft Hand, whose title quotes Keats's poem, she takes issue with that commanding voice, teasing out how patriarchal authority insidiously permeates our ideas of femininity and the ways we practically deal with women's bodies.
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The show reveals how insidiously the marriage plot affects our ideas of how friendship stories work, and it suggests that as much as our culture might insist that it values platonic friendships, we're not yet ready to genuinely give them primacy over romantic love.
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The books paid particular attention to New Age spiritual practices: Meditation was portrayed as a way for people to become possessed by demons, insidiously pushed upon people by a powerful New Age group that engaged in practices that seem drawn from accounts of Satanic groups.
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The institution is both a cultural mainstay and an infrastructural one, attempting to mitigate the degradation of drug use, persistent poverty, and a lack of community resources on the one hand, while also presenting an alternative to the insidiously creeping gentrification of Harlem on the other.
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She is doing both now, however -- not in her treatment of her grandson, Harry, and his wife Meghan, who made their last public appearance as senior royals this week, but, more insidiously, her handling of another problematic relative, her son Prince Andrew, the Duke of York.
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Based on the 2007 art house film of the same title, the show, which played Off Broadway at the Atlantic Theater, is a low-key charmer in which looking at someone in silence carries as much emotional weight as delivering one of David Yazbek's insidiously catchy songs.
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She died in one in which they seem to live right down here among everyone else — with their Instagram feeds and jade eggs and gluten-free recipes and self-help bromides — even as they inhabit a gated universe that has become more and more insidiously elusive.
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Lyrics like this are reflective of a sexist society; they help to preserve a patriarchal power structure, maintain the status quo of women as disposable sex objects, and it's very likely that they're insidiously affecting men's attitudes towards women, both in the context of metal and outside of it.
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Now, however, every property across the world labeled with the name Trump or known to be owned by the Trump Organization becomes a soft target for those wishing to do harm to the United States and its interests or, more insidiously, to put direct pressure on the American president.
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He might tell her he knows what he's thinking is stupid—"even if it's the most embarrassing thing"—but he's feeling scared, then they can discuss it, and it's in the open, rather than becoming something that might insidiously slip into the way the pair interact with each other.
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These unsettling tweaks to Pulp's signature disco pop are subtle—synth breaks that are a little too emphatic, horns that are a little too processed—but, in tandem with Cocker's lyrics, underscore how the trusted and familiar can easily, and insidiously, turn foul without us really realizing it.
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" Most insidiously of all, Cross defends the male cast members for disregarding Walter for crying during the NYT interview, couching this disregard in the language of concern because: "Whenever there's an occasion that somebody cries, it doesn't matter how many times they've cried before, that's a bad thing.
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The scope of the Larry conspiracy theory is immense and features a number of regularly espoused beliefs, including the idea that One Direction's management company, Modest (which Larries usually refer to insidiously as just "Management"), is heavily controlling Styles and Tomlinson's social media images and public appearances at all times.
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Rulers are no more than attorneys, agents and trustees for the people; and if the cause, the interest and trust, is insidiously betrayed, or wantonly trifled away, the people have a right to revoke the authority that they themselves have deputed, and to constitute abler and better agents, attorneys and trustees.
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More insidiously, these technologies, in their many protean purposes, have the capacity to undermine individuals' trust in a stable social order — in the belief that people are who they say they are or that as inhabitants of a single country, we all share a set of fundamental beliefs and a baseline reality.
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House Bill 22010, otherwise known as HB22010 or "the bathroom bill," sought to limit the ability of transgender citizens to use the bathroom of their choice; more insidiously, and noted less by the press initially, the bill also kneecapped the few existing legal protections for the trans community against discrimination from employers.
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In Chennai, on the southern coast, average annual concentrations of PM 2.5, insidiously small particles that scientists estimate have killed millions, have quadrupled in the last three years to 105 micrograms per cubic meter from 24, according to data from the first 10 months of each year gathered by the United States Consulate.
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"Reducing Pete Buttigieg's struggle to attract black support solely to black homophobia is not only erroneous, it is a disgusting, racist trope, secretly nursed and insidiously whispered by white liberals with contempt for the very black people they court and need," wrote New York Times columnist Charles Blow, a black man who identifies as bisexual.
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The mainstream media spin on Bannon's loss of influence and relevance has been achieved primarily by glossing over inconsistencies in their own narrative about his role and influence in the White House, and, more insidiously, by introducing into their narrative a total caricature of the "America First" themes whose political resonance they have so badly underestimated.
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The idea that women are inherently gentle, compassionate, and selfless—attributes appropriate for their natural role as caregivers—can insidiously distort expectations of governments with female leaders, while simultaneously making it easier for bad actors in the private sector to apply a thin feminist veneer to activities that are deeply destructive to the lives of less-advantaged women and girls.
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Much more frequently, however (and arguably more insidiously), those who downplay the specific in favor of the general do so not because they're actively trying to harm others, not because they want to Make America Great Again (for White People), but because they can—because they occupy a subject position that allows them to frame the struggles of others as something distant, something nebulous, something that is not their personal problem.
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We know certain things already, from Mueller's dozens of criminal indictments and the filings that have arrived alongside them: That our political system was penetrated by enemy hackers; that our digital culture was insidiously warped by false and distorted messages; that foreign intelligence operatives interacted many multiple times with a surprising array of Trump campaign officials and insiders, dangling the political temptation of illicitly obtained intel about Trump's Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, and the personal temptation of investments that could deliver Trump vast financial rewards.
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