very thing, the
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Snook was dealing with the kind of calculations that mothers have to make all the time, the very thing the show itself is addressing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025
He had that very thing the FBI was trying to bring down.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 21, 2023
To love "Emily in Paris" would be to love the very thing the show tells us to hate.
From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2022
Although “Kate” borrows elements of Berlant’s biography, it’s fiction through and through, which means that it withholds the very thing the lobby teases: knowledge of Berlant herself.
From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2022
I had been considering that very thing, the thought of Christmas in prison being so depressing, but the memo pretty much torpedoed the idea.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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