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Noun
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The Sun entered the 2025 WNBA season with uncertainty swirling around its future in Connecticut after its Mohegan Tribe ownership retained an investment bank to explore strategic financial options including selling the franchise.—
Emily Adams,
Hartford Courant,
14 June 2025 -
The number of card games on the market surged while consumers tightened their wallets in response to economic uncertainty.—
Dr. Jenny Woo,
CNBC,
14 June 2025
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As for the future, there is no doubt that if peace can be achieved, many billions of dollars will have to be spent before Ukraine can again supply its economy and people with the energy needed for a fully functioning state.—
Scott Montgomery,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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But there was never any doubt in their intent: put a creative, Midwest spin on country music.—
Garret K. Woodward,
Rolling Stone,
10 June 2025
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While the premise could result in an overly dour or preachy book, Nguyen's novel zips forward with page-turning suspense, humor, and nuance.—
Andrew R. Chow,
Time,
6 June 2025
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Susan Walter is the author of five novels of suspense: Lie by the Pool, Good as Dead, Over Her Dead Body, Letters from Strangers,, and Running Cold.—
Susan Walter
June 6,
Literary Hub,
6 June 2025
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Looming over his studies and extracurriculars is a singular dread.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
8 June 2025
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Kids might be excited about the end of the school year and for summer to begin, but many working parents who don’t know how to fill their kids’ long summer days may be feeling some dread right about now.—
Medora Lee,
USA Today,
8 June 2025
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For example, there is already a great deal of angst that AGI might be an existential risk.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
3 June 2025
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And in spite, or maybe because of, our generalized A.I. angst, there are plenty of robo-tales to choose from these days.—
James Poniewozik,
New York Times,
14 May 2025
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Women, in particular, have reported a harrowing array of abuses: invasive searches, threats to their children, forced nudity and psychological torment.—
Antonio Maria Delgado,
Miami Herald,
20 May 2025
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His independent investigations lead him to a supernatural serial killer (Harry Treadaway), who will seemingly stop at nothing to torment Hodges.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
23 May 2025
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The series has so much escapist potential in its initial episodes, poking at the absurdities of abundant wealth and ladling in so much silly foreboding, only to squander it because the series is unable to create anything resembling an emotional payoff.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
22 May 2025
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And despite the reasonable forebodings of Fleming and others, this time the outcome from geoengineering interventions should be different, though of course any intervention must be weighed against the unintended consequences that may follow.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
1 Dec. 2010
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Why The Pacers Could Win Game 3 (And/Or Cover) The Pacers have already defied their doubters with a number of upsets this postseason.—
Tyler Everett,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 June 2025
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Hamilton averaged an identical 21.5 points per to lead the Detroit Pistons to one of the biggest upsets in NBA Finals history five years later, starring on the 2004 team that stunned Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O’Neal and the L.A. Lakers to win the title in five games.—
Kels Dayton,
Hartford Courant,
10 June 2025
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