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The film received a standing ovation at Sundance, but the response from the music industry since has been, according to Dixon, Hines and Abrams, “crickets”.

From The Guardian • May 26, 2020

Fallon’s jab last week during a monologue for “The Tonight Show” provided a laugh for what has been, according to Jensen, the most trying year of ATM’s 16-year football history.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 19, 2016

Privately, Paul repeatedly mocks Trump, and he has marveled at how easily baited the reality television star has been, according to associates.

From Washington Post • Aug. 20, 2015

There has been, according to Klee, “zero interest” in the Garden Gem.

From Slate • Jul. 16, 2015

After a long and rather unintelligible unpopularity in English—it never suffered in this way in French—it has been, according to the way of the world, a little over-exalted of late perhaps.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George