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"Occam's Razor cuts through the noise to suggest Americans aren't through electing a reprobate, a criminal and an utter nincompoop . \u2014 Arkansas Online , 23 June 2021",
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"The Haggler notes that the dull and windy ninny whose name is attached to this column has flown all over the world and never contemplated buying a policy. \u2014 David Segal, New York Times , 22 Oct. 2016",
"Mr. Graham, with the work\u2019s stark conclusion, leaves you feeling like a simplistic ninny for ever thinking it might have been. \u2014 Neil Genzlinger, New York Times , 17 Mar. 2017"
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"The company\u2019s policy of military-historical accuracy prohibits it from making inauthentic garments; actual MA-1 flight jackets, produced for about twenty years, starting in the late nineteen -fifties, were sage green. \u2014 Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker , 9 Dec. 2019",
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