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Recent Examples of dullsvillePure dullsville in Van Nuys.—Boris Dralyuk, The New York Review of Books, 25 Mar. 2021 Speaking of winds, attempting to surf off Galveston in the summertime is dullsville.—Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2020 Next, if things remain dullsville, Anton Blidh could draw into the lineup.—Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2020
Marchand did not see the ice in OT but calmly stepped to the center dot, bore in on Korpisalo and beat him over the glove with a pretty backhander, a move Pastrnak knows well.
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Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
5 Feb. 2026
This civic attitude kicked into high gear as ICE bore down on the state.
One such winner is Steve Kovacs, who took first place in the Blackwater category, as well as the coveted best-in-show prize, for his whimsical image of a monkfish in Japan appearing to yawn.
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Leslie Katz,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
The oohs and aahs over a 100-mph pitch have been replaced by yawns.
The drip, drip, drip of layoffs at increasingly profitable companies like ASML and Amazon can ruin morale among remaining workers and contribute to a growing sense that—because of AI or not—no one’s job is safe.
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Claire Zillman,
Fortune,
10 Feb. 2026
This bed is planted with herbs and watered with a drip irrigation system.
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Leanne Potts,
Better Homes & Gardens,
10 Feb. 2026