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"Failure to compel Republican lawmakers to testify in the case will erode the legislative branch\u2019s ability to conduct future investigations, Prof. Lessig said. \u2014 Scott Patterson, WSJ , 25 May 2022",
"Does Clarence Thomas believe schedule leaks will erode our trust in the NFL",
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"The typical household is likely to face an additional $2,000 in costs this year due to high gas prices \u2014 money that will erode their ability to spend on other goods and services. \u2014 Aimee Picchi, CBS News , 25 Mar. 2022",
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"Del Noce indicts the sweeping changes of secularism, eroticism , and relativism as the inevitable outcomes of Marx\u2019s dialectical victory over religious and liberal foes. \u2014 Richard M. Reinsch Ii, National Review , 17 Feb. 2022",
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"Both schools reflect the myopic optimism of their makers, Rococo, with its excesses of ornamentation, pastel color palette, and curvaceous shapes evoking youth and eroticism ; Disney with its flattened ideas about good and evil and tidy endings. \u2014 New York Times , 26 Dec. 2021",
"In addition to its eroticism , the show is often, well, gross. \u2014 Sean T. Collins, Vulture , 19 Oct. 2021",
"As for the platform heels favored at red carpet events this year, Hemmelsack said the style plays off this eroticism as well as the surge in '90s nostalgia. \u2014 CNN , 2 Dec. 2021"
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"Justice Elena Kagan began her dissent with a long passage detailing the devastation the planet faces, including hurricanes, floods, famines, coastal erosion , mass migration and political crises. \u2014 Adam Liptak, New York Times , 30 June 2022",
"Commercial satellite imagery is integral to monitoring coastal erosion , exclusive economic zones and water quality. \u2014 Emiliano Kargieman, Forbes , 29 June 2022",
"Instead, despite strong and consistent support from Black women, the poll found an erosion among Black voters overall, led by men. \u2014 Erika D. Smithcolumnist, Los Angeles Times , 6 June 2022",
"This quadrant maximizes significant storm surge and beach erosion . \u2014 David Heckard, Orlando Sentinel , 31 May 2022",
"Meanwhile, the 275 residents remaining in Newtok continue to face significant risks from erosion , which is expected to severely threaten the school this fall. \u2014 Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News , 30 May 2022",
"In October, the area was hit with an atmospheric river rain event that caused massive flooding and erosion . \u2014 Ella Nilsen, CNN , 29 May 2022",
"Mikoko Pamoja, Swahili for \u2018mangroves together\u2019, centered its efforts around protecting the small communities in Gazi and Makongeni villages from coastal erosion , loss of fish and climate change. \u2014 Wanjohi Kabukuru, ajc , 6 May 2022",
"Obama proceeded to list several results of this phenomenon: heightened political polarization, declining trust in elite institutions, proliferation of false and misleading information, the erosion of local media, among others. \u2014 Jacob Carpenter, Fortune , 22 Apr. 2022"
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"We are headed down a dangerous spiral that will erode our democracy. \u2014 NBC News , 26 June 2022",
"Failure to compel Republican lawmakers to testify in the case will erode the legislative branch\u2019s ability to conduct future investigations, Prof. Lessig said. \u2014 Scott Patterson, WSJ , 25 May 2022",
"Does Clarence Thomas believe schedule leaks will erode our trust in the NFL",
"Concerned that higher interest rates will erode companies' profits, investors have been heading for the exits. \u2014 David Goldman, CNN , 14 May 2022",
"The typical household is likely to face an additional $2,000 in costs this year due to high gas prices \u2014 money that will erode their ability to spend on other goods and services. \u2014 Aimee Picchi, CBS News , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Skills erode over time, but charisma, like memories, last. \u2014 Dom Amore, Hartford Courant , 16 June 2022",
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"Johnson played Anastasia Steele opposite Jamie Dornan as Christian Grey in the adaptations of author E.L. James' bestselling erotic thrillers. \u2014 Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com , 28 June 2022",
"And the film marks the first directorial effort in two decades from Adrian Lyne, famous for making the kind of glossy erotic thrillers nobody even tries anymore. \u2014 Darren Franich, EW.com , 16 Mar. 2022",
"The actor seems always right at home in Almod\u00f3var\u2019s off-kilter universe, where the gravitational pull of philosophical pathos and nakedly honest emotion balances out the centripetal forces of absurdist humor and erotic camp. \u2014 Sergio Burstein, Los Angeles Times , 18 June 2022",
"Here the count cultivated la vie en rose \u2014 with erotic flair. \u2014 Mary Winston Nicklin, Washington Post , 17 June 2022",
"Inside are erotic works of art over the bar and wood-paneling that goes from floor to ceilings. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 11 June 2022",
"After years together, Petr and Hana share their unspoken erotic fantasies. \u2014 Leo Barraclough, Variety , 31 May 2022",
"Amplify your erotic experience this season by inviting in all five senses. \u2014 Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com , 29 May 2022",
"There\u2019s a very poignant, very raw scene in Steve McQueen\u2019s erotic noir that illustrates just this. \u2014 Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR , 25 May 2022"
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"We are headed down a dangerous spiral that will erode our democracy. \u2014 NBC News , 26 June 2022",
"Failure to compel Republican lawmakers to testify in the case will erode the legislative branch\u2019s ability to conduct future investigations, Prof. Lessig said. \u2014 Scott Patterson, WSJ , 25 May 2022",
"Does Clarence Thomas believe schedule leaks will erode our trust in the NFL",
"Concerned that higher interest rates will erode companies' profits, investors have been heading for the exits. \u2014 David Goldman, CNN , 14 May 2022",
"The typical household is likely to face an additional $2,000 in costs this year due to high gas prices \u2014 money that will erode their ability to spend on other goods and services. \u2014 Aimee Picchi, CBS News , 25 Mar. 2022",
"Skills erode over time, but charisma, like memories, last. \u2014 Dom Amore, Hartford Courant , 16 June 2022",
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"certain body parts that are known sources of erogenous pleasure",
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"With one hand on your clit, try massaging these other erogenous zones with the other hand. \u2014 Anna Pulley, Chicago Tribune , 24 May 2022",
"These high-tech vibrators, thrusters, and erogenous -zone stimulators can give you wall-clawing orgasms, no partner needed. \u2014 Jennifer Hussein, Allure , 13 Apr. 2022",
"With these images, West is working the erogenous zones of horror fans. \u2014 New York Times , 18 Mar. 2022",
"But as an erogenous zone, nipples can be an important part of many people's arousal\u2014and a wide variety of nipple toys can help you to explore it. \u2014 Suzannah Weiss, Glamour , 17 Feb. 2022",
"Designed to be a full-body personal massager and stimulate the erogenous zone, The Drop is a straight-forward vibrator that charges via USB. \u2014 Jaimie Potters, Harper's BAZAAR , 4 Feb. 2022",
"In the past, our options were mostly limited to obvious erogenous zones. \u2014 Katharine K. Zarrella, WSJ , 21 Jan. 2022",
"The tip is shaped to fit over just about any erogenous zone. \u2014 Gear Team, Wired , 30 Nov. 2021",
"Forget collarbones, d\u00e9colletage, or thighs, fashion\u2019s new erogenous zone is the torso. \u2014 Steff Yotka, Vogue , 11 Oct. 2021"
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"Johnson played Anastasia Steele opposite Jamie Dornan as Christian Grey in the adaptations of author E.L. James' bestselling erotic thrillers. \u2014 Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com , 28 June 2022",
"And the film marks the first directorial effort in two decades from Adrian Lyne, famous for making the kind of glossy erotic thrillers nobody even tries anymore. \u2014 Darren Franich, EW.com , 16 Mar. 2022",
"The actor seems always right at home in Almod\u00f3var\u2019s off-kilter universe, where the gravitational pull of philosophical pathos and nakedly honest emotion balances out the centripetal forces of absurdist humor and erotic camp. \u2014 Sergio Burstein, Los Angeles Times , 18 June 2022",
"Here the count cultivated la vie en rose \u2014 with erotic flair. \u2014 Mary Winston Nicklin, Washington Post , 17 June 2022",
"Inside are erotic works of art over the bar and wood-paneling that goes from floor to ceilings. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 11 June 2022",
"After years together, Petr and Hana share their unspoken erotic fantasies. \u2014 Leo Barraclough, Variety , 31 May 2022",
"Amplify your erotic experience this season by inviting in all five senses. \u2014 Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com , 29 May 2022",
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