as in crossroads
the latest possible time
The killer's life was spared at the eleventh hour.
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Joe Palaggi is a writer and historian whose work sits at the crossroads of theology, politics, and American civic culture.—
Joe Palaggi,
Twin Cities,
11 Feb. 2026 -
Maryland stands at a crossroads.—
Steve Hershey,
Baltimore Sun,
11 Feb. 2026
Noun
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When your extremities are warm, blood flows more easily to the skin, allowing excess heat from your core to escape.—
Angela Haupt,
Time,
4 Feb. 2026
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An autopsy conducted by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner found that Krampitz died of blunt impact injuries of his torso and extremities.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
3 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Concierge tenants have sustained frozen pipe emergencies during the past several winters, but never on as widespread a scale as this time.—
Don Stacom,
Hartford Courant,
7 Feb. 2026
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This bill would expand the list of qualified petitioners to include behavioral health professionals who are co-responders with police or other authorities in emergencies, as well as health care and educational institutions.—
The Denver Post,
Denver Post,
7 Feb. 2026
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At and after the end of the Second World War, Italian filmmakers responded with a new freedom to the traumas of Fascism and German Occupation as well as to the crises of American intervention amid Italy’s efforts to rebuild physically, politically, and morally.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2026
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He’s trapped in rolling crises of his own making and is struggling to sell voters on the idea of a strong American economy.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
9 Feb. 2026
Noun
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These new players were inhaling possibilities.—
Jerry Brewer,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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Outside, the agricultural heritage of the property continues to offer possibilities.—
Miriam Schwartz,
Hartford Courant,
8 Feb. 2026
Noun
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There was plenty of raw energy in climaxes, sometimes too much for so supportive and reinforcing an acoustic as the Meyerson Symphony Center’s.—
Scott Cantrell,
Dallas Morning News,
23 Jan. 2026
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Thus a wonderful section on The Jew of Malta climaxes in an unfortunate vision of the text as a secret message to Lord Strange, a wealthy and important patron of the arts.—
Isaac Butler,
The Atlantic,
3 Nov. 2025
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The sense is the Panthers would bring Rozeboom back at the right price, while trying to limit his exposure in passing situations.—
Joseph Person,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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Designed for sports, workouts, and outdoor activities, including extreme situations like chasing a departing plane, the glasses feature a smart camera, immersive audio, and built-in Meta AI for everyday performance.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Feb. 2026
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The intense temperature and pressure of the impact heated the moon's crust and mantle so much that many of the volatile elements present (volatiles are elements with low boiling points), including potassium, evaporated and escaped into space.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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Thermodynamics drives selective recovery The researchers hypothesized that FJH combined with chlorine gas could exploit differences in Gibbs free energy and boiling points to selectively remove non-REE elements from magnet waste.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Sep. 2025
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