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Kodai Senga threw up his hands and applauded his outfielder on the mound.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
5 Apr. 2026 -
The Wildcats notched the biggest lead of the night when Burries threw up a 3-pointer at the end of the shot clock with 22 seconds left that pushed the gap to 18.—
Nathan Canilao,
Mercury News,
29 Mar. 2026
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Per the new show’s official logline, in this new era of Peaky Blinders, a decade after World War Two, the race to rebuild Birmingham becomes a brutal contest of mythical dimensions.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
2 Apr. 2026
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The car was destroyed during a test crash in 1974, but in 2017, the marque’s factory restoration team, Lamborghini Polo Storioco, decided to rebuild it.—
Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
2 Apr. 2026
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Most are badly inefficient compared with their newer counterparts, and surprisingly cheap to retrofit.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Mar. 2026
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Tanks have been retrofitted with cages and mesh to deflect drone strikes.—
Holly Williams,
CBS News,
29 Mar. 2026
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The film utilizes a range of low-fi technologies to collectively reassemble their fragmented memories.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
20 Mar. 2026
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Dry all components and then reassemble the air fryer.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
20 Feb. 2026
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All four are gone, leaving Mirabal to reconstruct a unit that added only one Power 4 transfer, Jamal Meriweather, who logged just 59 offensive snaps in three years at Georgia.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
1 Apr. 2026
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Those ball-tracking cameras capture up to 300 frames per second, allowing the system to precisely locate each pitch within the strike zone and reconstruct its path.—
Neil Nakahodo,
Kansas City Star,
31 Mar. 2026
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Gusty winds combined with snow may cause limited visibility.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
1 Apr. 2026
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Connor Malvik and Carsen Blake pitched out of the bullpen for Birdville and combined to allow 1 hit with 3 strikeouts in 2 innings.—
Darren Lauber,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
1 Apr. 2026
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Other attempts to redevelop the mall have failed or stalled in previous years.—
Samuel O’Neal
Updated April 1,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
1 Apr. 2026
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Steve Witkoff was actually able to negotiate a deal to redevelop the Roosevelt, a shuttered hotel in New York owned by Pakistan.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
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First canals and then locks were devised to guide boats around the falls.—
Adam Sachs,
Condé Nast Traveler,
28 Mar. 2026
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Board member David Young suggested the county could devise some kind of explanation or message on the county’s website explaining the reason for the changes, and Gumz asked Lasky to come up with language for a potential disclaimer for the website to be considered by the committee.—
Molly Morrow,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Mar. 2026
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