I was even more surprised to find myself reacting skeptically.
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However, there are some reasons to treat these estimates skeptically.
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Clara is looking at me skeptically, but it does work.
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The rules were greeted skeptically by some parents and gamers.
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As a result, their efforts would only be viewed skeptically.
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"Recall" also features some soldiers skeptically eyeing a banana peel.
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He is looked at a bit more skeptically by investors.
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If you receive an email like this, treat it skeptically.
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Kieran Culkin's skeptically arched brows are begging to neg me.
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We flipped out, however skeptically, when he revealed his Hyperloop idea.
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Farther down the block, two men watched skeptically from a bench.
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This time, the court treated the president's claims far more skeptically.
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"Some people say you have to separate it," Apatow said skeptically.
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Related: Supposed Syrian Ceasefire Viewed Skeptically by War-Weary Aid Workers
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She looked skeptically at my passport again, then at my face.
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We in the press must still cover them aggressively and skeptically.
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A conservative who has criticized Trump Conservatives once viewed Trump skeptically.
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He is still viewed skeptically across much of the Democratic electorate.
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Senator Lindsey Graham warned that the information should be viewed skeptically.
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And its valuation of $27 billion was viewed skeptically by investors.
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The son told his father, who then skeptically called Mr. Loftis.
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"That's for the courts to do, not the president?" he asked, skeptically.
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But moves on immigration by this administration deserve to be viewed skeptically.
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Other legal experts view the call for a special prosecutor more skeptically.
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Of course, some people have more skeptically considered the 2628 percent question.
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Let's hope a critical mass of those watching skeptically become new converts.
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Russia is no stranger to reforms, but many Russians view them skeptically.
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Sanders, like Trump was, is viewed skeptically by some party establishment figures.
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Fatlawi was not convinced: "They all say they quit," he said, skeptically.
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The world she renders for us is always worth dwelling in, even skeptically.
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Here in Mr. Ryan's hometown, a potential upset is likewise being viewed skeptically.
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Fortunately, the most important newspapers here reviewed his concoction very skeptically and critically.
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He silently and skeptically scanned me from head to toe and back again.
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My advice is to channel Hertzberg and to view all the angst skeptically.
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The idea was greeted skeptically in scientific circles and ignored by funding agencies.
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Now, much of the media looks at the company skeptically, critically and sometimes cynically.
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In light of Facebook's recent trials, some people have responded skeptically to Portal's launch.
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U.S. officials responded skeptically, suggesting it was a disingenuous effort to get sanctions relief.
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I remember five years ago, standing there skeptically in a group of 25 men.
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But both Mr. Trump and Ms. Clinton seem destined to view tech more skeptically.
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What we need to do is look at these asset-stripping schemes more skeptically.
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New York Times reporter Michael Shear skeptically questioned that statement, and Sanders doubled down.
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Such information is generally treated skeptically until it can be confirmed by multiple sources.
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On the left of the Republican conference, blue and purple state Republicans reacted skeptically.
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Both are viewed skeptically by the establishment of their party as extremists and ideologues.
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Baker supports the Tillerson nomination, which is part of why Israelis view Tillerson skeptically.
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Now, we should treat all this from Stone — a legendary dirty trickster — extremely skeptically.
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While some might point out that gracias al sacar seems more like an authoritarian barrier met skeptically and granted begrudgingly by Spain to its colonial subjects, I insist that affirmative action itself was similarly met skeptically, granted begrudgingly, and systematically undermined and attacked.
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The agency often looks skeptically at deals in which direct competitors combine with one another.
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The border control looks at the marriage certificate skeptically and says it's no longer valid.
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It's a neutral word that continues the conversation skeptically, but doesn't immediately squash the idea.
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Back in the U.S., T-Bag has skeptically decided to have the hand replacement surgery.
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"I just don't get how you can turn one body into diamonds," Kim says, skeptically.
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This is community science data, so it's worth looking skeptically at some of the observations.
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Looked at more skeptically, it's an ineffective placebo or a band-aid for systemic failings.
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But people who look at him a little more skeptically will take it more seriously.
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Meanwhile, Comey skeptically held out hope that there were tapes, because they could exonerate him.
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"I thought the whole point was to not be in the water," Larson said skeptically.
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The proposal is viewed skeptically by the N.S.C. staff, according to a senior administration official.
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Benjamin wrote of it skeptically, charting its rise alongside the spread of the printing press.
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And some of them have viewed Kavanaugh's accusers skeptically because of the 11th-hour timing.
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But any claims to cutting edge innovation from these cheaper brands should be viewed very skeptically.
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He attacked anonymous sources and insisted that any story using them is rightly viewed extremely skeptically.
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Lately, when the girls come to him with complaints, he listens skeptically, with a sardonic smile.
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"Impeachment can give someone the opportunity to be an unexpected American hero," he said, somewhat skeptically.
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Like Arrogate, West Coast was regarded skeptically by bettors and assigned generous odds of 6-1.
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Today is the day that we have been (anxiously, eagerly, nervously, skeptically) waiting for all year long.
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Christie's four kids looked over a little more skeptically in the direction of the boot wearing wizard.
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This has become an annual tradition for the network, though some rock aficionados approach the broadcast skeptically.
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They look skeptically at strangers — wonder when or where or if another attack like this will occur.
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I told my hairdresser she had nothing to worry about, but she still looked at me skeptically.
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As Curran persistently reminds us, thinking skeptically about the truth of religion meant risking prison and persecution.
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And these ideas are increasingly being wrestled with — though skeptically — by leading center-left economic policy thinkers.
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On a recent Sunday, he watched three women from Toronto react skeptically after reading the statue's plaque.
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"Isn't that the dude who kissed his husband on TV?" the person asked skeptically, according to Darby.
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America's constitutional commitment to free speech is founded on an ability to skeptically assess all received wisdom.
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Journalists who write skeptically about Bitcoin tell me that no other subject generates as much hate mail.
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At least a few Wall Street analysts reacted skeptically to the offering, issuing "sell " ratings on the stock.
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But I'm really just reacting skeptically to some of these assumptions rather than saying there's an alternative view.
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So, if nothing else, all announcements of groundbreaking discoveries in this field must be treated skeptically at first.
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In the breaking news rush my discussing, even skeptically, incoming from rival campaigns was, in a word, stupid.
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"You really think she's ready to go to some swanky Manhattan charity ball?" she asks her husband skeptically.
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His awakening to religion has been portrayed skeptically, and in places dismissively, as an attempt at a corrective.
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Skeptically. It took a few days to really talk to the kids because they were a bit shy.
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Once, the two of them, dressed in suits, attended a youth-group meeting where they were greeted skeptically.
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On the right end of the media divide, the memo was treated skeptically, if not with outright ridicule.
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Indeed, the idea has been treated more skeptically by neuroscientists and a vast majority of artificial intelligence researchers.
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But many Democrats still view the idea skeptically, wary of its price tag and taking away private insurance.
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"How old are you, bro?" asked Mike Allen, a 28.46-year-old who stared down Mr. Irving skeptically.
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But once Mr. Sessions became attorney general, he spoke skeptically of consent decrees and staunchly defended the police.
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"If I was there still, I'd be looking skeptically at Boeing's claims," said former ITC chairperson Dan Pearson.
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The meeting was viewed skeptically because North Korea made no hard-and-fast pledges coming out of it.
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Pharmacy benefits managers, the mysterious middlemen between health insurers and drugmakers, are viewed skeptically by lawmakers and the public.
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The "fierce pride" they share is really hubris, and history will regard Trump as skeptically as it regards Jackson.
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He wonders, skeptically, how his parents wanted him right away despite dealing with the grief over their own baby.
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A photo of Clinton looking skeptically toward the dais, her hand supporting her chin, became a popular internet meme.
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Several Democratic senators looked at Kavanaugh skeptically, and some leaned on their hands as they listened to his statement.
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"It's encouraging but we are eyeing it skeptically," said Mike Loewengart, vice president of investment strategy at ETrade Financial.
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Though it claimed the event was the detonation of a hydrogen bomb, the U.S. has viewed that claim skeptically.
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Pompeo views Bolton skeptically, two people familiar with their relationship say, and doesn't trust his motives on North Korea.
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Charitably speaking, that could be because of ignorance, but skeptically, it could be a reflection of something more sinister.
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Critical Shopper At Allbirds and Birkenstock in SoHo, the Critical Shopper embarks, skeptically, on a search for styling footwear.
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In other words, there's a reason to look at the yield curve skeptically, despite its prowess at predicting recessions.
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As Trump's flight to Texas took off, the president tweeted skeptically about Hunter Biden's knowledge of the energy industry.
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The groups are hoping the same appeals court will look skeptically at Pruitt's attempt to delay another controversial regulation.
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What might have been considered an outlandish blockbuster a decade ago is now looked at more skeptically in 2017.
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The findings are among the first to quantify the law's financial effect, an impact that social conservatives have skeptically downplayed.
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Blockchain, which was once viewed skeptically by governments worried about its affiliation with bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, is in vogue.
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They battled over the legitimacy and motivations of a Harvard law professor who had weighed in skeptically on Cruz's eligibility.
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She takes that all in skeptically, and asks me to call Unimin's local office the following Monday to get permission.
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President Trump, of course, views free trade more skeptically, and may well impose huge tariffs on all laundry-machine imports.
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Trump's Supreme Court could look skeptically at voter suppression claims, and could end affirmative action in public institutions for good.
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Mr. Patel's arrival has been greeted skeptically in the headquarters of the director of national intelligence, known as Liberty Crossing.
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Of course, the evidence Blackfish puts forward — including both environmental and genetic explanations for orca aggression — should be treated skeptically.
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Like many domestic opponents of Russian president Vladimir Putin, Navalny had regarded the American uproar over Trump's Russia ties skeptically.
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"The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez" strikes me as entirely believable, but I imagine some will approach it skeptically.
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It was accepted quickly by the Americans, chaotically by the Russians, skeptically by the French and reluctantly by the British.
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"A deal that was in process already would probably get done, but things should be read very skeptically," Shah said.
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Those calls resonate with a large swathe of the population even as they are viewed skeptically by many upscale urbanites.
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But his position is viewed skeptically in Germany and almost certain to fuel the wrong kind of populism across Europe.
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As parents photographed their offspring posing with machine guns and American troops, a smartly dressed man observed the spectacle skeptically.
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The Oklahoma Republican has long viewed the EPA skeptically and has sued the agency repeatedly as the top cop in Oklahoma.
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But he's jolted back to reality when the home's new resident emerges and looks at him, skeptically, asking why he's there.
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He pushed the backlit mirror in front of me, and I leaned forward, skeptically tracing my finger along the blunt edge.
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Wall Street also has viewed Square more skeptically since its CFO Sarah Friar left to become CEO of Nextdoor, Cramer said.
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Or maybe Mr. Biden, still viewed skeptically by much of Mr. Sanders's young and progressive base, can make the sale himself.
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The president's requests on biomedical research and defense are likely to be greeted skeptically by Congress, which ultimately controls spending levels.
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But Attorney General Jeff Sessions has spoken skeptically about such agreements and called for greater reverence and support for the police.
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How someone so prepared to look skeptically at his people's myths would motivate those people to vote for him intrigued me.
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Instead, they should think things through from the ground up, respect facts and skeptically re-examine their own assumptions and convictions.
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The law essentially criminalizes speech, he said, and the Supreme Court looks very skeptically at laws that may infringe upon that right.
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Burke has viewed Netflix skeptically over the years, suggesting the company may not be able to live up to its lofty valuation.
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So Ms. Michaels hid in a hall closet while the producer played a beat on loop and Mr. Tranter stood by skeptically.
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This adds more ammunition to the argument that Kavanaugh doesn't just look skeptically on presidential investigations — he's openly questioning decades-old precedent.
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Unlike other Republican nominees who have been greeted skeptically by social conservatives, Mr. Trump faces deep and unrelenting hostility, Mr. Perkins added.
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This poll is conducted via the Internet, a methodology that continues to be looked at very skeptically by the broader polling community.
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"Could the president grant deferred removal to every unlawfully present alien in the United States right now?" the chief justice asked skeptically.
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And now it seemed that the little Lego people, or at least a few of them, were looking up at him skeptically.
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Biden is also viewed skeptically among some Democrats who dismiss him as an out-of-touch moderate in a party moving leftward.
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Often, they frown skeptically, weigh the book in their hands, glance at a few pages and toss it back on the pile.
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When news of Gretchen Carlson's sexual harassment lawsuit against Fox News CEO Roger Ailes broke in July, many at Fox reacted skeptically.
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These artists are providing insights into how people can more rationally engage the potential of computation as well as skeptically interrogate its failings.
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The woman behind the counter eyed me skeptically, then shot a glance at my impromptu translator as if to ask, Is she sure?
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Brendan is viewed skeptically by the rank and file -- especially Chris MacKenzie (Taylor Kitsch) -- but Eric agrees to take a chance on him.
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Learning systems should be transparent and claims asserted by robots might have to be met even more skeptically than those asserted by humans.
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In light of this, any calls to weaken patient protections for the sake of technological priorities must be viewed both skeptically and critically.
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The people who listened to him critically and skeptically, for the possible truths he was omitting, were the ones who'd heard him correctly.
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Meanwhile, Mr. Trump was praising Mr. Putin, advocating for greater cooperation with Russia and speaking skeptically about NATO and its collective defense mission.
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" Veteran news purveyor that he is, Ram Badan Singh eyed the message skeptically and suggested a rewrite: "Extensive misuse of money in progress.
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You might grumble skeptically at the notion that parks and plants make a real difference in our happiness, but the research is convincing.
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Market participants typically look at new Fed chairs skeptically, always wondering whether they are capable of filling the sizable shoes of their predecessor.
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He also warned that there isn't a lot of information coming out of the province, so any precise estimation should be treated skeptically.
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This is what is "conservative" about it, and also what makes it inclined to view the entry of foreigners into the American polity skeptically.
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Apart from psychosurgery, I think the recent fad for over-the-counter electrical brain-stimulating devices needs to be looked at closely and skeptically.
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"My friends didn't think UFOs were cool for the most part, now most of them are either skeptically intrigued or deeply excited," he said.
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We've seen her in a washroom, skeptically peeking at her own reflection in the mirror, loose words and feelings filling the air around her.
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In the lively, hourlong hearing, the judges, from the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, pushed skeptically on the arguments of both sides.
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Of course we want men to champion women's rights, and we shouldn't look skeptically on the men who stand up for all of us.
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Walker's twisted, draconian pictures are a cypher for the present moment inasmuch as they skeptically obscure the possibility of alternative futures for our nation.
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It seems likely to draw an audience of residents here eager to watch — some quite skeptically — a production based on their community's true story.
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But any attempt to create a memorable moment will likely be viewed skeptically, given the empty theatrics of his move during the Kavanaugh hearings.
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Bangladesh's government has reacted skeptically to claims from the Islamic State, instead placing blame for some of the attacks on groups affiliated with opposition parties.
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And with the Republican-controlled Senate on record as planning to kill any impeachment attempt, most establishment Democrats view the whole thing very, very skeptically.
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Pruitt, who has long viewed the EPA skeptically and has sued the agency repeatedly as Oklahoma attorney general, is a lightning rod of a pick.
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Love campaign pollster Scott Riding said in a statement to KUTV that the poll should be viewed skeptically because it used robodialing to reach voters.
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The unit's current head Bill Stepien is expected to remain in place for now, but is still viewed skeptically by some of Trump's outside allies.
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The brief acknowledges that no such allegation of a crime is necessary in impeachment but suggests the Senate should view the case skeptically without one.
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" Burton nodded skeptically, then asked about the motivation behind another one of his lines: "By now, I think the dead have gotten where they're headed.
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Remembering how Cersei bombed the Sept of Baelor for personal reasons, are we then supposed to take Tyrion's speech to Jon about assassinating Daenerys skeptically?
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Back in the car, heater blasting, she swallowed some of the capsules and downed a bottle, then sat waiting, skeptically, to feel something like a high.
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Justices Anthony Kennedy and Stephen Breyer joined Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito in skeptically questioning Smith's arguments for the challengers to Ohio's system.
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When the emails dropped, he recalled being questioned about his loyalty to Bernie by other Sanders delegates — while being viewed skeptically by Clinton supporters as well.
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The more hard-line members of Trump's inner circle view Cohn skeptically, arguing that he is not entirely loyal to Trump and favors globalism over nationalism.
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Presidential emergency powers have been received skeptically ever since the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the seizure of steel mills by President Truman during the Korean War.
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Nugent, his younger brother, had always been one of those men who spent a lot of time with children, back when that wasn't looked at skeptically.
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Reports that the mission may expand significantly in the region should be viewed skeptically; given local political sensitivities, host nations would resist a large U.S. presence.
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"I've been watching the news lately, and I've been noticing that you've been kind of softening up on Mr. Trump's policies and words," Matthew said skeptically.
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Still, there have been no announcements of structural changes, ensuring the community will continue to view the museum skeptically and perpetuating the possibility of avoidable controversies.
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Several signs have emerged this year that Mr. Sessions has begun to view the practical merits of Guantánamo-style policies more skeptically in his new job.
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As Mr. Fitzgerald assailed the Republican's voting record, flanked by an activist dressed as a yacht captain, Vince Cavell looked on skeptically from a short distance.
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" Stories like Wilkins's, Oriard added, "are confirmation that this ideal that we've clung to for a long time — skeptically or cynically or unconsciously — is still alive.
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Joseph Rose, with the Mobile County Sheriff's Office in Alabama, stared skeptically at the slip of paper on which he was supposed to draft a letter.
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Then Face ID came along on the iPhone X, and I looked on skeptically as my clearly foolhardy friends followed the examples of Apple's smiling models.
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But the second and most distinctive part of Bannon's suggested plan — that there should be a retrospective assertion of executive privilege — was received much more skeptically.
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Canada and Mexico will also be looking skeptically at any new restriction that the U.S. administration may want to put in place regarding "Buy American" policies.
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This requires maintaining an indefinite American military presence in the war-torn country, a strategy which Tillerson acknowledged may be greeted skeptically by the American public.
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Adaptive mutation theory, however, finds little acceptance among most biologists, and many of them view the original experiments by Cairns and the new ones by Houseley skeptically.
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In Trump's telling, Abe even nominated him for a Nobel Peace Prize following his diplomatic gambit with North Korea, an effort that Abe has privately viewed skeptically.
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In addition, Secretary Rex Tillerson's business background inclines him to look at most government spending skeptically, and to look for places to cut in his own budget.
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While Kennedy was a Republican appointee, he was viewed skeptically by many conservatives, who believed he hewed far too closely to the ideological center for their tastes.
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Because coal is still the bedrock of the Chinese economy, promises by the Chinese leadership to peak and reduce coal consumption need to be looked at skeptically.
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Of course, there are reasons to look skeptically on Kushner's diplomacy and what he accomplished, especially since it's done little to tamp down Trump's bellicose approach to Mexico.
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Overall, viewing this uncorroborated document very skeptically was always a good idea, and the fact that its funders were Trump's biggest opponents only makes that more the case.
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And such lack of edge is compounded by society's shifting sexual mores: "Everybody's got three lovers now," Samuel L. Jackson, another longtime collaborator of his, told me skeptically.
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Warren also joined those calling on Buttigieg to disclose the clients he worked for years ago at McKinsey & Company, a global consulting firm viewed skeptically by many progressives.
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He, along with other senior members of the party, are veterans of a student democracy movement in the 1980s that came to view the US military presence skeptically.
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Those who oppose the appropriation of hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. security assistance — a euphemistic term for lethal weaponry — to Kyiv are now being viewed skeptically.
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This topic came up during the campaign and was received skeptically, but now the New Yorker quotes experts who've reviewed the data and still suspect there's something there.
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There were those who condemned the books as conduits to witchcraft, and there were those who viewed them skeptically as being influenced by secularism, potentially undermining Christian values.
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So the border adjustment tax, a favorite of Ryan but viewed skeptically at best by the White House, is less likely to be part of Trump's tax reform bid.
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And if I look at Mamoon and he's looking at me really skeptically when I'm excited about an opportunity I'm bringing in, I'll think about it and vice versa.
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On immigration, for example, Mr. Cruz has come under fire for reversing himself on expanding the H22013B visa pool for highly skilled workers, a program viewed skeptically by conservatives.
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But he is viewed skeptically by some people around Mr. Trump who recall bitterly the clashes between the campaign and the party committee at various points during the race.
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Over the ensuing decades, the city has sometimes been viewed skeptically by African-American athletes, at least a few of whom have expressed reservations about playing for Boston teams.
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A plan to blow up that system and throw 149 million people off their private insurance, while embraced by progressives, is viewed more skeptically by moderates and swing voters.
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One high-school senior appeared in Cedar Rapids wearing a black T-Shirt imprinted with images of Harris' face as she skeptically questioned Kavanaugh during the Judiciary Committee hearings.
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In general, Fitch views loan growth that significantly outpaces GDP and peer growth skeptically as it raises concerns about adverse selection, underwriting standards, and the appropriate risk-return trade-offs.
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Courts are likely to look skeptically on the EPA issuing a weak, toothless provision that will not reduce an air pollutant it has identified as a threat to public health.
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The market has looked skeptically at these forecasts since the Fed began 93 with forecasts pointing to four hikes, and ended the year with just one rate rise in December.
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With GMOs still eyed skeptically by many consumers and consumer groups, food producers have continued to fight laws that would require them to label the use of genetically modified ingredients.
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The fact that Trump was apparently working on behalf of his business only a few weeks before he moves into the Oval Office suggests those promises should be viewed skeptically.
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He grew up in the culture of organized labor, and when coal comes up he takes an old-school approach that praises the worker but looks skeptically at the operators.
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The unquestionably strong prevalence of liberal political views among college and university faculty members also may contribute to an institutional culture that treats appeals to U.S. national security concerns skeptically.
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Critics have also viewed skeptically the web of relationships that Clinton had with outsiders while she was secretary of State and how they might have interacted with her family foundation.
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As I detailed in May, Dreamers were once viewed skeptically by other undocumented activists, who believed that campaigns designed to help Dreamers could undermine efforts to pass comprehensive immigration reforms.
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But Lisa Freeman, a veterinary nutritionist and researcher with the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, sees this moment as an opportunity to view grain-free diets skeptically.
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The developing peace plan, which Greenblatt and others have kept secret, is viewed skeptically among many in the Arab world because of expectations it will be a pro-Israel vision.
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Mr. Bannon is a deft operator within the White House, and he has been praised by Republicans who view him skeptically as the most knowledgeable on policy around the president.
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A CAP official insisted to CNN on Sunday that there was a firewall between the site and the think tank, but that it has been treated skeptically by critical outsiders.
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Judge William Walls responded skeptically to an earlier and broader request, saying that the Menendez is free to "absent himself at times," but the trial will go on without him.
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It's understandable if that last sentence left you skeptically blinking at your screen, given that the meticulous Ocean has been teasing a second album for at least the past year.
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Outcomes data that includes only scores on tests of depression and anxiety should also be viewed skeptically, the experts said, because any treatment would probably have some beneficial effect on mood.
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Democrats' push for witnesses appeared to be sputtering in recent days, with even the small number of Senate Republicans open to calling for new evidence responding skeptically to the House's case.
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Chris Christie (R), is viewed skeptically by the RNC because of her criticism of Trump after the release of the "Access Hollywood" tape and as a lost cause, the report said.
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It's not surprising that Trump, who has assumed a bellicose "America first" stance on both global military affairs and trade, would be viewed skeptically by America's allies in Europe and Asia.
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Related: Supposed Syrian Ceasefire Viewed Skeptically by War-Weary Aid Workers The HNC said it had accepted the terms of the temporary truce following an emergency meeting in Riyadh on Monday.
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Obama's close ties with German Chancellor Angela Merkel -- and his view that Germany was the heart of a collective Europe -- raised suspicions in Poland, where Germany's power has long been viewed skeptically.
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But the shift in tone for the brothel itself really is jarring enough to make me look at it more skeptically in terms of what the series is trying to say here.
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From the trailers, Maui seems like both a source of comedic relief and guidance to the young princess as he tells her tales of his strength and she stares at him skeptically.
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Mr. Macron has audacity, but he is too new and viewed too skeptically by other leaders, including those from Central Europe, to actually "lead Europe," if Europe can in fact be led.
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Determined to prove the viability of this opinion, I skeptically embarked upon a reasonable-footwear doubleheader: Allbirds and Birkenstock, which recently opened a few blocks away from each other on Spring Street.
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Each time he encounters something that feels like a metaphor, he peers at it skeptically, tempted to see significance but unwilling to tie his loss up into a story that "means" anything.
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He skeptically nibbles on a cookie handed over by a fuzzy-handed monster, and says, "All I taste is beard" with a hearty and jolly laugh worthy of the red suit he's wearing.
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The Fed will be watching these metrics carefully, and it's a reason some officials have spoken skeptically of the need for broad tax cuts and fiscal stimulus at a time of full employment.
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The question is less why Trump is starting to look skeptically at his chief-of-staff-cum-budget-director, but more how he got so much power and influence in the first place.
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This, in turn, leads to female founders receiving less funding simply because unconscious bias leads folks to invest in people who look like themselves and even approach those who are different more skeptically.
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Critics, in turn, say that Success Academy's academic outcomes need to be regarded skeptically: The network's "high expectations" can prevent certain students from enrolling and can push out weaker students who have enrolled.
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To avoid spooking the animal if it was only injured, Ms. Cassens waited several minutes before approaching as her father needled her skeptically, suggesting her newfangled ammunition might not have immediately killed it.
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To which his son would respond skeptically, "You shouldn't be saying that, because look, I see things," like local movie theaters that either barred black people or forced them to sit in balconies.
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I listened skeptically as Waldo sketched out the scenario in the wood-paneled living room of Mike's small, dark, sparsely furnished house, while four cats slinked shamelessly over the sofa and coffee table.
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He is an adult who likes to hang out with kids, for one, a habit that only Eva skeptically questions as she wafts about in a cloud of pot smoke and bad vibes.
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Other Catholics have argued that Vigano's accusations should be viewed skeptically because he disagrees with Pope Francis on important church matters and may be bitter over the way he stepped down in 2016.
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Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, reacted skeptically after receiving an intelligence briefing in September 2016 about the Russian interference, a former Obama administration official said in the report.
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Tacos and burritos are virtually unknown in China, where many diners prize aspirational noshes from America, Japan and Europe and look skeptically at what they see as poorer fare from other developing countries.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump nominated an outspoken World Bank critic to head the development fund on Wednesday, his latest effort to reshape and reform a set of global institutions he's viewed skeptically.
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The ambitious (and expensive) design was viewed somewhat skeptically, and many locals saw in the plans the total destruction of a beloved quiet garden that currently stands in between the two museum entrance pavilions.
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The would-be assassins range in age from 13 to 20 and are so unfamiliar with the American landscape that one of them marvels, somewhat skeptically, that a black man actually lives in Wisconsin.
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China promised to bring all subsidy programs into compliance with World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, the sources said, but U.S. negotiators reacted skeptically, in part because China has long refused to disclose its subsidies.
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The apprenticeship model, though successful in Germany, has often been viewed skeptically by high school students and parents who have been bombarded by the message that a college education brings the greatest economic rewards.
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HANOI (Reuters) - In a stormy first foray abroad for Robert Lighthizer, the new U.S. Trade Representative disagreed over protectionism with Asian and Pacific countries that look skeptically at the Trump administration's "fair trade" agenda.
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A few of his choices, including Steven Mnuchin, Wilbur Ross and Ben Carson, have been viewed skeptically by critics, who cite — among other things — a lack of government experience as disqualifying them for the job.
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The president, who took office in December, has alarmed investors by cancelling a partially built $13 billion new Mexico City airport, and with his commitment to infrastructure projects that are viewed skeptically by financial markets.
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That's reflective of a massive culture disconnect between those who grew up with guns and view them as an extension of their fundamental freedoms and those who did not and view guns far more skeptically.
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Grain was dutifully filled, and I watched skeptically as it stood solitary and defiant on our veranda in the muggy monsoon weather in a city where I neither saw birds fly nor come to roost.
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The invitation came after I had tweeted skeptically earlier in the week about Mr. Dorsey's explanations for why Twitter had decided to keep posts of Alex Jones, the far-right conspiracy theorist, on the site.
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We need better research that asks the correct questions and rigorously, methodically and skeptically identifies the precise dietary causes of these disorders so we know what has to be removed to reverse or stop them.
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Without such an approach -- which has in the past been viewed skeptically by officials like national security adviser John Bolton -- meaningful North Korean concessions seem unlikely, and antagonism across the Pacific seems certain to spike.
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"You won't find too many technology companies that could lose this much money, this quickly," said Aswath Damodaran, a business professor at New York University who has written skeptically of Uber's astronomical valuation on his blog.
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Among the Gospels, I've put the most weight on the Gospel of Mark, because it was the first written, and have skeptically pestered pastors about why Mark doesn't mention the Virgin Birth or describe the Resurrection.
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For Mr. Biden, who has antagonized Mr. Sanders as a non-Democrat out to diminish the presidency of Barack Obama, even a firm insistence that he understands what is driving Sanders voters will be viewed skeptically.
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If you're what we'd politely refer to as "non-traditional market" that means a chance to show you belong in front of a hockey world that's probably looking at you at least a little bit skeptically.
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This is where Wacom feels the Magic Leap hardware, which many have eyed skeptically after burning through billions of dollars during its many years of development, could be a genuinely useful productivity tool in the design field.
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You have to try to arrange its many kaleidoscopic fragments into a lens of truth, and then look through that skeptically, which takes more time and cognitive effort than a lot of people can or will expend.
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In what is perhaps her most famous video among diehard Kiyokians (the name by which Kiyoko's fans self-identify), "Gravel to Tempo," Kiyoko dances through a high school, watched skeptically by a pack of pretty, popular girls.
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"They think that bisexuals are not suffering because we have two choices about who we can love," she says, noting that even among the lesbian and gay communities in Greece and Syria, the label is regarded skeptically.
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" Lehmann-Haupt's chief complaints concerned the book's obvious allegory ("Russian rabbits?" he asked skeptically) and its episodic plotting: "Our rabbit band," he wrote, "moves on from the warren of the doom bunnies to one crisis after another.
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But on the basis of the emails, the younger Trump went in not skeptically but eagerly ("if it's what you say I love it"), ignoring or simply accepting the weird formulation about Russian support for Trump's campaign.
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Even within China, some diners might look skeptically at mouse wine and call it dark cuisine; as Gao pointed out, China is so vast, what's happily eaten in one province might be shunned as strange in another.
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Many investors on Silicon Valley's legendary Sand Hill Road always have looked skeptically at cash-strapped, policy-inclined companies, choosing instead to support commerce-focused founders with the greatest chance of delivering a much-higher-return public offering.
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That first rough impression is not great for a franchise that already being skeptically viewed by Hellboy fans, who have long wanted a third installment of the series directed by Guillermo del Toro, featuring Ron Perlman as Hellboy.
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Uber lost approximately $3.3 billion last year, Reuters added, and investors looking to buy into its forthcoming initial public offering (which it hopes will reach $120 billion) may view the self-driving program's massive budget skeptically.[Quartz/Reuters]
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The FOMC declared in December 2016, when it hiked rates for only the second time in this expansion, that it expected to raise rates three more times in 2017, a proposition that was viewed somewhat skeptically by markets.
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"Next week is big for retail and tech, and I think the former is hated enough and the latter is viewed so skeptically that there could be some money made buying, instead of selling," the "Mad Money " host said.
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Related: Supposed Syrian Ceasefire Viewed Skeptically by War-Weary Aid Workers Assad told El Pais his troops are now close to fully controlling the northern city of Aleppo and are advancing toward the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa province.
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Mr. Trump is still viewed skeptically by many Republican donors, and Mr. Miller's pedigree, having worked for Mr. Romney and Mr. Rubio — two party leaders — could help the New York real estate magnate gain credibility in the donor community.
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Stucke, who worked at the antitrust division of the DOJ during the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, said one key question was whether regulators would treat claims about data as skeptically as they treat claims about price increases.
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Such people are definitionally weird, and tend to view the status quo so skeptically that they believe it's inevitably headed for some kind of apocalyptic demise … but their questions are valuable even if you don't agree with their answers.
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" Another social media user said skeptically: "Someone said Aziz Ansari needs to lose his career... for going on a date with a chick who blew him twice but didn't like the experience so she said she was sexually assaulted.
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"We view this potential 'synergies on input cost' argument much more skeptically now than going into this study," said Matt Grennan, a health care management professor at the University of Pennsylvania and one of the authors of the study.
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Although P2P lenders elsewhere in the world have been viewed skeptically because of how they mix mom-and-pop investors and higher-risk loans, in China the sector was seen as helping plug a gap left by larger lenders.
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If politically charged documents leak publicly following reports of Russian hacking, many voters and reporters would likely look at them far more skeptically than they did last time, when many prominent news outlets published stories from Russia-leaked documents.
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Thus, as we'll learn in these hearings: After expressing skepticism of foreign aid and concern about foreign corruption on the campaign trail, President Trump outraged the bureaucracy by acting skeptically about foreign aid and expressing concerns about foreign corruption.
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That's an astonishing number that we should look at very skeptically since First Orion sells "phone call and data transparency solutions" of precisely the kind that might help with an absurd future in which half of all calls are malicious junk.
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Image: Esther Max (Flickr (CC-BY-SA 2.0))Researchers at Stanford University and elsewhere say they've taken an important step in potentially helping people with a barely understood ailment that's long been viewed skeptically by the public and even some doctors.
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Almost two years ago, on a chilly February afternoon in Washington, D.C., Republican Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma took to the floor of the United States Senate, skeptically muttered a few things about rising global temperatures, then threw a snowball.
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Advocates for the family of Paul O'Neal, the 18-year-old who was killed on Thursday, reacted skeptically to claims of the faulty body camera, wondering aloud why the department had invested in the technology if it did not work.
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The majority decision went beyond the question in the case to assert that only quid pro quo corruption — a measurable exchange of legislative favors for campaign money — justified regulation, indicating that the court would look skeptically on most campaign-finance limits.
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As Justin Trudeau's Liberals announced their first budget and flaunted big spending on Aboriginal issues, with an aim to fulfill their ambitious pledge to provide clean drinking water for all of Canada's Indigenous communities, First Nations Chiefs looked on skeptically.
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But if the dossier's claim of a years-long Trump-Kremlin entanglement and its claim of Cohen's direct involvement are both looking implausible or false, then its claims about a sustained Manafort-managed collaboration should be treated extremely skeptically as well.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats responded skeptically on Monday to President Donald Trump's declaration that he might be willing to testify in his impeachment inquiry and also said they were examining the truthfulness of his testimony in the Russia 2016 election interference probe.
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What the events of the past 10 days should remind us of is that anything and everything that comes from this president and this White House -- especially denials of so-called "fake news" -- needs to be looked at very, very skeptically.
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The only place that didnt seem to want smelters was the U.S. One place where the tariffs are viewed a bit more skeptically is the storefront near Hawesville occupied by United Steelworkers local 9423, which represents workers at the plant.
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Now that he has repeatedly mocked them and their most admired colleagues, few will fault them for treating his outreach skeptically, and Trump himself is not likely to be able to overlook their criticisms long enough to build a relationship.
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Micah Hanks, the skeptically open-minded author and host of the popular podcast The Micah Hanks Program told Motherboard, though he doesn't necessarily agree with all his conclusions on UFOs, he is thrilled to know Friedman's archives will be preserved and publicly available.
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Maria Collett had never run for office before this year, but by now, crisscrossing her neighborhood in Ambler, Pennsylvania, she's an old hand at it: thumbing through addresses and names on a canvassing app, offering warm introductions through skeptically opened screen doors.
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Drooping vines and fluttering leaves frame the stately, stationary subject of "Owl #3" (2016, 30 x 26 inches), who regards the viewer skeptically from a perch at the painting's center and appears, as owls often do, both supremely poised and slightly demented.
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Sanders supports Obama's recent executive action to expand background checks on certain gun purchases, but he has also argued that rural communities, like those he represents in Vermont, rightfully view gun restrictions more skeptically than many urban residents, including many African-Americans.
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Instead, many of the changes that delegates were debating on Thursday appeared to be aimed at preventing the nomination of a candidate like Mr. Trump — who has switched party affiliation several times and is viewed skeptically by many grass-roots conservative activists.
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"I would say I'm skeptically hopeful," she said soon after the July 2018 retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy, when asked about the overall future of the court without the centrist conservative justice who had provided the crucial fifth vote to uphold abortion rights.
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Even the latest allegation from a Yale classmate of his who said he exposed himself to her at a party — which had not surfaced by the time of the festival — would probably hold little sway given how skeptically they viewed the first accuser.
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Myron Ebell, a senior fellow with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, worked behind the scenes to make sure Republican offices in Congress knew about Mr. Horner's work — although at the time, many viewed Mr. Ebell skeptically, as an extremist pushing out-of-touch views.
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One was Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist, who had written skeptically days earlier that her plan to pay for "Medicare for all" was a "make-or-break moment" for her, if not the whole 230 race.
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Iranian officials reacted skeptically earlier on Tuesday to Trump's comments that he's willing to negotiate with his Iranian counterpart, saying instead that if Trump wants talks, he needs to rejoin the international nuclear deal he unilaterally pulled out of earlier this year.
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But as directed by Trish Sie, the movie is bubbly, it's fast, it's hella synthetic-clever, and it's an avid showcase for the personalities of its stars: the skeptically pert Anna Kendrick, the radiant and vivacious Hailee Steinfeld, and the terrifyingly droll Rebel Wilson.
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Over lunches and dinners, on the streets during a parade honoring the achievements of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in churches and in classrooms, black residents of Cleveland counted down the final days of Obama's presidency with admiration and looked skeptically toward a future under President Trump.
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But, as I wrote last week, the conventional wisdom that the Republican-controlled Senate would never remove Trump should be viewed somewhat skeptically -- in the same way that any "X thing can never happen in politics" should be viewed somewhat askance in this age of Trump.
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Not only were members of the press justified in skeptically asking Trump to prove he made the donations he'd boasted about, they -- we -- are especially required to verify any of the candidate's assertions, because they so often turn out to be at odds with the facts.
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Clinton's advocacy of stronger gun restrictions was viewed skeptically by some during the Democratic primary campaign because it was one issue where she could get to the left of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who had opposed some gun control measures as a member of the House.
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TEHRAN, Iran – Iranian officials reacted skeptically on Tuesday to President Donald Trump&aposs comments that he&aposs willing to negotiate with his Iranian counterpart, saying instead that if Trump wants talks, he needs to rejoin the international nuclear deal he unilaterally pulled out of earlier this year.
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Anchor Michael Che skeptically notes that Biao was a Chinese trade representative on his last "Weekend Update" appearance, but Biao assures him that he has been watching plenty of medical shows on TLC, like Dr. Pimple Popper, and is therefore qualified to tackle the contagious coronavirus.
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Mr. Romney, who was mocked in 2012 when he described Russia as the greatest geopolitical foe of the United States, has seen his stock in the Republican Party rise since his loss to President Obama, although he is still viewed skeptically by the party's grass-roots.
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Though some Republicans have viewed the Office of the Director of National Intelligence skeptically and sought to scale it back, the timing of the review by the acting director, Richard Grenell — after President Trump's downsizing of the National Security Council staff — caused concern inside the nation's intelligence agencies.
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"The price drop has come at a time when a lot of cities have severe budget constraints anyway, so some communities are beginning to look more skeptically at recycling," says Jerry Powell, a 46-year veteran of the recycling industry and longtime editor of the recycling industry trade publication Resource Recycling.
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There was a time, not so many years ago, when Rubio was attacked and his efforts at bipartisanship regarded skeptically because liberals perceived him as a threat — a plausible and eloquent leader for a less bunkered G.O.P., a bridge between the party's old white base and a more multicultural America.
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In building an argument that Mr. Trump has no obligation to respond to demands for information from Congress, Mr. Cipollone, in a letter sent Tuesday to House Democratic leaders, laid out an extraordinarily broad view of executive authority that, if maintained, seems likely to be viewed skeptically by the courts.
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However, it's more fun to imagine the Swedes nervously and skeptically peering across the Atlantic to America, wondering in all seriousness what is going on with the world's largest economy that just voted a reality TV star to be president and is devoting resources to studying what fruits make the best fake phones.
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However, President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE and his Cabinet members viewed the report skeptically.
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The changes would install new privacy protections — including adding a skeptical voice to secret court deliberations when the F.B.I. wants to eavesdrop on Americans under certain circumstances — but stop short of more sweeping limits favored by some civil libertarians in both parties that are viewed skeptically by national security officials and centrist lawmakers.
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Although the youngest of Newman's five daughters, Clea Newman Soderlund, sits on the board of the foundation, some of Newman's children aren't happy with the lack of a larger Newman presence in the company or at the foundation, as well as skeptically viewing large increases in executive salaries and a new $14 million office building.
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"I never leaked in office," Comey said while adding that leaks and media coverage from special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerTrump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony Kellyanne Conway: 'I'd like to know' if Mueller read his own report MORE's Russia investigation should be looked at skeptically.
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Realize, however, that you should view those numbers skeptically; having watched his film I believe Cousins should've thrown several more picks, and in that same span he had four straight games with only one TD. Still, if I'm wrong about Cousins suffering a big regression this year, someone other than Jackson and tight end Jordan Reed will benefit.
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Or again, more skeptically, one could have been forgiven for thinking the increasingly woke museum is yet the newest gambit to preserve the stranglehold of the ruling elite (who continue, in the broader scheme of things, to profit from distinctly unwoke border detention centers, the militarized police, surveillance of dissidents and journalists, looting and plunder for shareholder profit, and looming ecocide).
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Some Republicans who view Trump skeptically smelled a rat, saying the deal was likely in the works for weeks and that he decided to endorse Trump "This was obviously a backroom deal they negotiated 2-3 weeks ago," said GOP strategist Ford O'Connell, who argued that the timing of the endorsement was aimed at undercutting momentum Rubio had coming out of Thursday night's debate.
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It seems, in this case, that Hulu was only giving Fox a share of ad revenues, something that Lichtman describes skeptically: "So, when Fox contends that there is no evidence of a better deal struck by another studio in terms of the percentage of ad revenue, this is true because no other studio would make such a deal based on the percentage of ad revenue" (emphasis in the original).
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An investor in Barron's observed skeptically that BlackRock is still the world's largest investor in fossil fuels, with over $19 billion in Exxon stock alone, as well as large interests in Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and BP. Some climate activists have cautiously welcomed BlackRock's announcement, seeing it as the fruit of a long campaign to pressure the firm to divest from companies contributing to climate change and thereby bring greater pressure to bear on responsible corporations and governments. BlackRocksBigProblem.
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The website Gawker, before closing last year, routinely took shots at us, including this post imagining our staff at work: I envision, just so you know, a room of ladies peering skeptically over their bifocals at announcement submissions, occasionally pausing to consult worn leather bound address books — "I could have sworn Swoosie Remington was from Darien and not New Canaan," they sniff — while Bob Woletz sits in his office lighting copies of Town & Country on fire.
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