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Noun
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And luckily for me, Quince is secretly stocked with linen tops, dresses, skirts, and more, starting at just $32.—
Michelle Baricevic,
Travel + Leisure,
16 May 2026 -
Jennifer Garner’s go-to sneaker brand is included in the sale too, with 25 percent discounts on all Brooks running tops and 30 percent off all bras from the brand.—
Maggie Horton,
PEOPLE,
16 May 2026
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The theater, declared a landmark in 1988, is a 13-story shadow box preserving bits from a rich history of pop culture pinnacles past.—
Erin Jensen,
USA Today,
6 May 2026
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Canyonlands National Park The desert landscape of Canyonlands National Park is marked with towering rock pinnacles, remote canyons, and Indigenous American rock paintings.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
29 Apr. 2026
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Both songs were inescapable at their respective peaks and received the loudest reactions of the night.—
Eden Dinneen,
Kansas City Star,
14 May 2026
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The probability of lightning strikes rises as a thunderstorm approaches and peaks when the storm is directly above.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
14 May 2026
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After all, exits and grand finales are part and parcel with any theater and therefore any showgirl's life, and could be purely symbolic in nature.—
Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Sep. 2025
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No one expects massive breakthroughs out of international summits, which are more about pageantry and signals than substantive negotiating.—
Editorial Board,
Washington Post,
15 May 2026
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Or to put it another way, the nation states, treaties, and climate summits make up the globe, while climate modeling and evolution and the periodic table of elements and carbon cycle are what define the planet.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 May 2026
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Trump convincing the Ellisons to make a new installment of Rush Hour, whose broad racial humor might have been unwelcome a few years ago (if not much earlier), may be one of the capstones of his cultural influence as president this time around.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
24 Nov. 2025
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Her materials include those most basic elements of the earth—geology—and her forms borrow from totems, obelisks, prehistoric megaliths, and Indigenous Caribbean zeniths.—
Emily Watlington,
ARTnews.com,
7 Apr. 2026
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The crescendos of Tines’s operatic bass-baritone bleed through the entirety of the Geffen like thunder, concretizing the space into a heartbeat of resistance that reanimates the categorization of witness.—
Horace D. Ballard,
Artforum,
22 Apr. 2026
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The tag team has led to the band’s best collection where super sharp hooks meet ugly, glorious crescendos and curious arrangements.—
Jed Gottlieb,
Boston Herald,
7 Apr. 2026
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“Copestones.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/copestones. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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