Keep an eye out for the coton de tulear, which spurted from 92nd in 2024 to 79th last year.
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Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
18 Mar. 2026
By the time Journalism and jockey Umberto Rispoli began passing other horses and taking aim at Fierceness with the rally that had won him the Santa Anita Derby, Preakness and Haskell Stakes, the leader had spurted clear by 2-1/2 lengths turning into the homestretch.
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Kevin Modesti,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 Aug. 2025
Keller girls basketball coach Kate Goldberg shared a moment with her former star before the game and previously had gushed about her work ethic and mentality.
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Lawrence Dow,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
31 Mar. 2026
Tyrone Phillips of Little Rock recently gushed about the pace and quality of his recent bass fishing trips to Lake Hamilton.
The new millennium had introduced a range of breakthrough neo-soul acts–Musiq Soulchild, Floetry, India Arie–whose music coursed with devotion and intimacy.
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Jackson Howard,
Pitchfork,
29 Mar. 2026
But these jewels appear as a tribute to the styles that coursed through the choreographer’s career.
There are two areas in my garden where fern asparagus has been growing for more than four decades, having first spouted from seeds that had been deposited, no doubt, by birds.
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Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
21 Feb. 2026
Being true to those principles matters more than refuting a talking point from any pundit or any bulletin-board material spouted by any rival.
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Michael-Shawn Dugar,
New York Times,
26 Jan. 2026
Days after she was struck in the head with a metal bottle, Khimberly was rushed to the hospital, where doctors discovered severe bleeding in her brain.
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Matthew Rodriguez,
CBS News,
3 Apr. 2026
Major changes to higher education funding should reflect the different roles institutions play in serving students and the state’s economy — and such significant revisions must be studied, piloted and refined, not rushed.
Arriving crews reported that the fire had already engulfed the second floor of a vacant, two-story house and began an offensive attack on the blaze, Nolan said.
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Robert A. Cronkleton
March 30,
Kansas City Star,
30 Mar. 2026
By time deputies and firefighters arrived, the home was fully engulfed.
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Karen Kucher,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Mar. 2026
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