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The 2025 Broncos returned to eminence.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
1 Feb. 2026 -
On an eminence at the heart of the sprawling property, the restaurant overlooks a painter’s delight of fields, woods, and distant hills, a mosaic of brown and gold on this cloudy late-fall day.—
Claire Messud,
Vogue,
8 Jan. 2026
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Michael Jordan, the fourth of five children, has credited his older brother Larry with fueling his legendary competitive fire, while Serena Williams — the youngest of five sisters — surpassed even the greatness of older sister Venus.—
Rustin Dodd,
New York Times,
3 Feb. 2026
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Anyone who’s attempted to sing Mariah Carey’s catalog at karaoke or in the comforts of their car knows that matching the greatness of Mimi is often an insurmountable task.—
Steven J. Horowitz,
Variety,
31 Jan. 2026
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Advertisement Navalny rose to prominence as an anti-corruption campaigner and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests, becoming a key opponent of President Vladimir Putin.—
Nandika Chatterjee,
Time,
14 Feb. 2026
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Person, who first rose to national prominence as a leading MTV VJ between 1995 and 2011, worked extensively as a presenter in Brazilian television before dedicating herself to directing.—
Rafa Sales Ross,
Variety,
13 Feb. 2026
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The changes, along with updates like an independent front suspension and a 50 percent increase in structural rigidity, helped push the Land Cruiser even further up the prestige ladder.—
Will Sabel Courtney,
Robb Report,
5 Feb. 2026
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The Americas saw sales growth of 1%, led by prestige beauty and brands including Clinique and The Ordinary.—
Hikmat Mohammed,
Vogue,
5 Feb. 2026
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Not to friends and family who believed he was destined to restore the ‘Huskers to their glory days.—
Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 Feb. 2026
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The passion reflects a tradition in the Confucian belt of East Asia that the path to glory is to study.—
Nicholas D. Kristof,
Mercury News,
11 Feb. 2026
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There’s no reason, given Chicago’s clear preeminence among Midwestern cities and an abundance of infrastructure and natural resources, that Illinois shouldn’t be leading the charge.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Jan. 2026
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Together with its other untapped resources, this presents yet another attractive trait to any suitor in pursuit of technological and industrial preeminence.—
Chloe Demrovsky,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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The drug, an oral medicine called infigratinib, met its primary goal in a study enrolling more than 100 kids with achondroplasia, a rare genetic disorder that results in short stature and can lead to serious medical complications.—
Damian Garde,
STAT,
12 Feb. 2026
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If not for his 7-foot-4 stature, ex-NBA center Boban Marjanovic could have been any other member of the student section during the UConn women’s basketball team’s game against Creighton on Wednesday night at Gampel Pavilion.—
Emily Adams,
Hartford Courant,
12 Feb. 2026
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But Savannah Guthrie's celebrity status has also garnered extensive resources from the federal and local government — including a $100,000 FBI reward for accurate information about her whereabouts or that could lead to an arrest and conviction of whoever took her.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
14 Feb. 2026
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Directed by Pradip Krishen and originally made for Indian state broadcaster Doordarshan, the film is set in a Delhi architecture school in the mid-1970s and has achieved cult status over the decades.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
14 Feb. 2026
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“Illustriousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/illustriousness. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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