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It also declares that the amendment would “repeal constitutional protections against gerrymandering approved by nearly three-quarters of Ohio electors participating in the statewide elections of 2015 and 2018,” a gratuitous reference to the failed reforms of the previous decade.

That press conference came in the shadow of the Hur report, in which the special counsel made a gratuitous comment about Biden being an elderly man with a bad memory.

The GOP, already the party of sexism, is getting more gratuitous with its toxic masculinity.

The GOP, already the party of sexism, is getting more gratuitous with its toxic masculinity.

As to the sex and the violence, yes, we’ve seen the frescoes and mosaics and know the Romans had inventive erotic lives, but on streaming television, these scenes, which arrive with regularity, come across as tediously gratuitous.