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“He's going to be of the opinion that he should be the breadwinner, but he knows she's a strong woman. That's been one of the cool things about their sort of relationship, is that she barks back at him. When she's unhappy with something he says she's the first one to tell him where to go and how it's going to be.”

From Salon

“There’s a lot of the Democratic Party, starting with the White House, that appears to be of the opinion that immigration is not a winning issue for Democrats right now,” says Dara Lind, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council.

From Slate

If you are a purveyor of pungent prognostication on the various social media venues available since Elon Musk shattered Twitter into scintillating shards of silliness, you’re apt to be of the opinion that the glass is half empty and the world is headed to hell.

From Salon

“I believe,” concluded Scott, “if Congress should at any time be of the opinion that a state of slavery was a quality inadmissible in America, they would not be barred...of prohibiting this baneful quality.”

Overall, people seemed to be of the opinion that GQ achieved a stunning feat by managing to make Pitt — someone who is famous for looking good — look anything but.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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