To me, this looks less like the passive voice and more like Twitter-esque 'defensive writing', where you try to pack your statement with preemptive rebuttals to a thousand screaming nitpickers.
There's probably a word in mathematics for the kind of complex topology demonstrated by this pretzel
Could've been a molasses factory going up. Who can say?
Explosion-related incident.
Someone should crowdsource a Grammarly subscription for the NYT.
the whole point about raising a fuss about coverage of that hospital bombing wasn't so much that they cared about getting the blame in that specific case, it was to muddy the waters and bully the press into more of this nonsense
I can’t wait till “dozens” is just a mathematical way of saying 10x12, still *technically* right
You're complaining about "Dozens were taken..."? Otherwise, no passive voice.
Maybe we should use our diplomatic relations with the explosions to convince them to stop
