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Video showed police forming a barrier between plainclothes ICE officers and surrounding crowds.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
4 Apr. 2026 -
One skeleton estimated at 10,000–12,000 years old was surrounded by evidence of bonfires, possibly indicating funerary rituals involving light.—
Ryan Brennan
April 4,
Miami Herald,
4 Apr. 2026
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More were soon visible all around us, ringing the horizon.—
Jeffrey Marlow,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
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The sky cleared just as Nasdaq's opening anthem rolled across the yard, and Cook stepped forward to ring the bell.—
MacKenzie Sigalos,
CNBC,
4 Apr. 2026
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On the Base — the area above the sheer cliffs that encircle Tristan and below Queen Mary’s Peak — a group herds sheep down from the mountain.—
NPR,
NPR,
4 Apr. 2026
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Some people lamented on social media the empty spaces around a pond that used to be seamlessly encircled by flowering pink blossoms.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
3 Apr. 2026
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George’s cluckingly affectionate aunt wants to enfold Hedda in a tradition that would consign her to the role of wife and mother.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Feb. 2026
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The building enfolds Vanessa German’s East Flatbush People’s Museum of Love and Wonder, a collection of cloying installations.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
18 Feb. 2026
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The Mercury and Air Toxics Standards were created in 2012 to restrict pollution from coal and oil-fired power plants – namely mercury, a neurotoxin that can cause brain and nervous system damage.—
Madeline Heim,
jsonline.com,
1 Apr. 2026
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In conventional approaches such as surface codes, qubits are typically limited to interacting with their nearest neighbors, restricting how efficiently information can be processed.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Apr. 2026
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Meta-analyses encompassing more than 170,000 participants have demonstrated a 25% reduction in major adverse cardiovascular events and significant reductions in all-cause mortality.—
Vikas Patel,
STAT,
3 Apr. 2026
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The sphere of influence encompasses an approximately 40,000-mile radius region around the moon.—
ByMary Kekatos,
ABC News,
2 Apr. 2026
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In some species the nipples are fully exposed or are bounded by mere remnants of a pouch.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 Apr. 2026
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The territory is roughly bounded by Interstate 10 on the south and west and Loop 410 to the north and east.—
Brandon Lingle,
San Antonio Express-News,
31 Mar. 2026
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Social Circle doesn't have the infrastructure needed for a facility of that size, noting the town's water permit is limited to just one million gallons a day.—
Nakell Williams,
CBS News,
2 Apr. 2026
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Prices are subject to rapid, unpredictable changes due to factors like, but not limited to, supply/demand, weather, and geopolitical events.—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 2026
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“Enframe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enframe. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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