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Mladic died on Thursday while serving a life sentence in The Hague for war crimes committed during the 1990s Bosnian war; his conviction led international media to dub him the "Butcher of Bosnia".
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
In the same year as “Donnie Darko,” Chase lent her voice to the American dub of Hayao Miyazaki’s tender “Spirited Away,” voicing its protagonist Chihiro.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
But the U.K. branch of the polyglot style sometimes called post-rock included Bristol groups such as Movietone and Crescent, who mixed and matched dub rhythms, folk instrumentation, and electronics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
It’s partly what led the New York Times in 2011 to dub him “one of the most gifted singer-songwriters of his generation.”
From Salon ● May 15, 2026
He thought hard, and at last found the solution: he would continue on his way and ask the first person he met to do him the honor and dub him a knight!
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
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He also came across an online advertisement for a law firm dubbed the Crypto Lawyers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
So much so, the New York Times dubbed him an art market “wunderkind.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
The Times newspaper called the exhibition a "spine-shivering experience" that has sparked "Tapestry-mania" in Britain, while The Economist dubbed it the "hottest ticket" around.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
With a book-style format, the new iPhone, dubbed the Duo, is the largest ever size of the product.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
This convenient comparison is given extra poignancy by Beethoven’s reference to the French despot in his momentous third symphony, these days known as the Eroica but originally dubbed the Bonaparte.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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Watching the stop-motion monsters climb over ruined walls to poke at Greece’s elite soldiers, it’s easy to forgive the movie for its less-than-stellar dubbing or borderline nonsensical love story.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
The Metro covers the hunt for eclipse glasses, dubbing it Black Wednesday as the demand for specs to watch the solar eclipse has resulted in a "money-making bonanza" for shops.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
The postings suggest the Disney, Netflix and Amazon studios are building repeatable AI workflows for visual effects, animation, sound and dubbing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
He’s said bad periods are a feature as much as a bug, dubbing it “time arbitrage.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026
Baba burst out in gales of his deep- throated laughter—a sound not unlike a truck engine revving up—and, when he could talk again, explained to us the concept of voice dubbing.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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