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The Heat needs to finish among the East’s top six teams to clinch a playoff spot and avoid the play-in tournament.
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Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2026
The 19-year-old Celebrini also now has 17 games this season with three or more points, second among teenagers in NHL history only to Wayne Gretzky, who had 19 in 1979-80.
—ABC News, 2 Apr. 2026
His is the longest tenure of voice in the Rangers’ history, and the third-longest continuous run with the same team among MLB’s 30 franchises.
—Mac Engel
april 2, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Apr. 2026
Villas are set among 475 acres of pristine golf courses and land-before-time-style vegetation inhabited by the property’s namesake monkeys.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Apr. 2026
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Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2026
The 19-year-old Celebrini also now has 17 games this season with three or more points, second among teenagers in NHL history only to Wayne Gretzky, who had 19 in 1979-80.
—ABC News, 2 Apr. 2026
His is the longest tenure of voice in the Rangers’ history, and the third-longest continuous run with the same team among MLB’s 30 franchises.
—Mac Engel
april 2, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Apr. 2026
Villas are set among 475 acres of pristine golf courses and land-before-time-style vegetation inhabited by the property’s namesake monkeys.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for among
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The committee will share the information with parents and staff on which campuses would be closed and more details on consolidation amid increasing financial struggles.—
Fousia Abdullahi,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
2 Apr. 2026
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Organizing a triennial today means navigating the tension between the local and the global amid a rapidly shifting world order.—
Wassan Al-Khudhairi,
Artforum,
2 Apr. 2026
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Such shootings have ranged from isolated events between service members to mass casualty events, such as the shooting by an Army psychiatrist at Texas' Ford Hood in 2009 that left 13 people dead.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
3 Apr. 2026
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Set the scene The electric whoosh of automatic doors at the entrance, activated by room keys, act like a Shinto torii gate, marking the transition between two starkly different worlds—inside and outside the hotel.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
3 Apr. 2026
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Within in an hour of the first departure in Lantana, the helicopter nosedived through the roof of a vacant warehouse near the 3800 block of South Congress Avenue just west of Interstate 95.—
Angie DiMichele,
Sun Sentinel,
3 Apr. 2026
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Their first conversation is comically lopsided, and McKellen, purring his way through what is effectively a monologue, lays the groundwork for his most vividly inhabited and hilariously irascible performance in years.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
3 Apr. 2026
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“Among.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/among. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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