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Extragalactic astronomers refer to a region behind our Milky Way as the 'Zone of Avoidance' because dust between our galaxy's stars blots out, or deeply reddens, light from more distant galaxies behind it.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
4 May 2026 -
Most people never get to experience a total solar eclipse, when the moon blots out the disk of the sun and reveals its fiery outermost atmospheric layer, or corona.—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
6 Apr. 2026
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Now my son toddles up to the bookshelf and casually knocks off Corduroy, The Cat in the Hat, This Pigeon Needs a Bath, Baby Beluga.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Mar. 2026
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If Texas basketball knocks off defending national champion Florida Wednesday at Moody Center, should that guarantee the Longhorns a spot in the NCAA Tournament?—
Thomas Jones,
Austin American Statesman,
24 Feb. 2026
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And then there is a gory massacre scene from the original Camp Miasma, in which Little Death (played by TV Glow‘s Jack Haven) slaughters dozens of unlucky campers to a highly unusual, anachronistic hit song from the 1990s.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
20 May 2026
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Meanwhile, Du-yeong slaughters an entire building of bloodhounds in the search for So-yeon.—
Kayti Burt,
Time,
3 Apr. 2026
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Instead of a withering blast that annihilates you instantly, the real killer would be a highly elevated risk of cancer and degenerative diseases over time.—
Alan Bradley,
Space.com,
8 May 2026
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Dreams blend and bend time; death annihilates it, and Miller’s play is both.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2026
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Played by Mark Hamill (with a healthy dose of de-aging visual effects), the Jedi Master boards Moff Gideon’s ship and swiftly takes out all of his Dark Troopers.—
Chris Snellgrove,
Entertainment Weekly,
21 May 2026
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Katz said that's the best way to know if your title is being searched, if someone claims a right to your deed, or if someone takes out a mortgage on your property.—
Tim McNicholas,
CBS News,
2 Apr. 2026
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Kingpin’s enforcer Buck Cashman (Arty Froushan) shockingly murders Deputy Mayor Daniel Blake (Michael Gandolfini) in a showdown of Fisk’s two right-hand men.—
Jordan Moreau,
Variety,
29 Apr. 2026
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Geillis, on her quest to install Bonnie Prince Charlie on the throne, murders her husband as a blood sacrifice and walks through the stones.—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
26 Mar. 2026
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The Polish government considers the Volhynia and Galicia massacres a genocide, and holds Bandera equal in infamy to Nazi war criminals of the same era.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
25 Aug. 2025
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This move effectively decimates the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has conducted federal funds to NPR and PBS for nearly 60 years.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
7 Aug. 2025
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