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present-day technology has rendered yesterday's marvels obsolete
the present-day administration in Washington
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Shaped by dramatic interactions in crowded, turbulent environments billions of years ago, these galaxies suggest a galaxy's present-day location may not reveal its full history, astronomers say.
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Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Neanderthals who lived in present-day Israel may have passed down local butchery techniques, and experiments indicated that late Pleistocene Neanderthals’ stable nitrogen-isotope ratios indicate not hypercarnivory but a diet rich in maggots.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Warren found Soderbergh’s oblique way of directing perfect for an oblique script — and a movie that became even more oblique in the editing, as Soderbergh reshuffled the linear narrative to be out of order and more evocative of past memories than a present-day story being told with immediacy.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 19 Sep. 2025
His imprisonment stirred what was said to be nearly 5,000 anti-slavery demonstrators to storm the Milwaukee County Jail — which stood on present-day Cathedral Square — to break Glover out on March 10, 1854.
—La Risa R. Lynch, jsonline.com, 17 Sep. 2025
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Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Neanderthals who lived in present-day Israel may have passed down local butchery techniques, and experiments indicated that late Pleistocene Neanderthals’ stable nitrogen-isotope ratios indicate not hypercarnivory but a diet rich in maggots.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Warren found Soderbergh’s oblique way of directing perfect for an oblique script — and a movie that became even more oblique in the editing, as Soderbergh reshuffled the linear narrative to be out of order and more evocative of past memories than a present-day story being told with immediacy.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 19 Sep. 2025
His imprisonment stirred what was said to be nearly 5,000 anti-slavery demonstrators to storm the Milwaukee County Jail — which stood on present-day Cathedral Square — to break Glover out on March 10, 1854.
—La Risa R. Lynch, jsonline.com, 17 Sep. 2025
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“Present-day.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/present-day. Accessed 26 Sep. 2025.
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