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"It was a vicious circle. It was just complete turmoil... something that everyone just used to say she would grow out of or 'it's a phase' or 'she just needs to learn'," Holly added.

If Martin's team then go on to lose the game, that message will become ever more vicious.

If this lawfare isn’t aggressively reined in now by judges and Congress, it’s going to be a long and vicious three-and-a-half years.

And like politics, the Love Island USA fan culture can get vicious, very quickly.

Almost 40 years have passed since Stephen King terrified readers with “IT,” his massive novel about a vicious clown named Pennywise who targets the children of Derry, Maine.