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Space stocks — Space stocks rose, with Intuitive Machines rallying 10% and AST SpaceMobile gaining 6%.—
Sarah Min,
CNBC,
26 May 2026 -
Sherman does not trade individual stocks and supports a ban on stock trading.—
Matt Brown,
Fortune,
25 May 2026
Noun
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To read our endorsements for other important Bay Area races click here.—
Mercury News Editorial Board,
Mercury News,
27 May 2026
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Mayoral races in three of Georgia’s biggest cities will be decided by runoffs.—
Adam Beam,
AJC.com,
27 May 2026
Noun
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The killers went back to their farms and families and lived on.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 May 2026
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My heart breaks for the families of these young people.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
26 May 2026
Noun
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According to the Cleveland Clinic, a stem cell transplant can treat — and sometimes cure — certain blood disorders, cancers and autoimmune diseases by replacing unhealthy stem cells with healthy ones, either from the patient's own bone marrow or donated stem cells from another person.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
PEOPLE,
23 May 2026
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Crucially, for medical interventions, Oberau is just a 15-minute drive from the private hospital where Stephan Papp is head of radiology, so Mount Med guests are fast-tracked for everything from next-day blood results to MRI scans, thanks to full access to the hospital’s laboratories and equipment.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 May 2026
Noun
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The remote region is also home to many indigenous tribes — primarily the Inga, Nasa, Quillacinga, Embera, and Siona — as well as Mestizo Colombians.—
Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
27 May 2026
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Other groups, including local tribes and environmental justice organizations, are watching the state’s efforts closely for potential effects such as sediment disruption and erosion, changes in whale migration and pollution from construction.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
24 May 2026
Noun
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Mete and Defne likened the arrangement to summer houses in their childhoods, when everyone ate outside on makeshift tables, calling out to neighbors.—
Ayşegül Savaş,
New Yorker,
24 May 2026
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Eric Richins owned a lucrative contracting business, and Kouri Richins worked as a real estate agent, buying and flipping houses.—
Natalie Morales,
CBS News,
24 May 2026
Noun
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The combined disgust, discomfort, ignorance, and fascination with our Indigeneity that unsettled my aunties and fascinated my cousins made more sense to me.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 May 2026
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And there are not enough Jewish marchers to parade hand-in-hand with the ghosts of their Palestinian cousins from the Gaza genocide.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
27 May 2026
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Genetic evidence suggests those dogs’ lineages might go back even further—at least to the end of the Late Pleistocene period, approximately 12,000 years ago.—
K. R. Callaway,
Scientific American,
11 May 2026
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Last week, the fellows presented their culturally sustainable materials that center Black community histories and lineages for young learners ages 3-7.—
Tribune News Service,
Baltimore Sun,
30 Apr. 2026
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“Kissing cousins.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kissing%20cousins. Accessed 28 May. 2026.
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