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Kentucky and Utah have reduced levies.—
Wyatte Grantham-Philips,
Chicago Tribune,
14 May 2026 -
In many ways, Kris aches to be reduced to such simple matter, to strip away all of her heady anxiety and surrender to basic want.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
13 May 2026
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In 2024, that decreased to 20 percent.—
Ashley Wu,
New York Times,
18 May 2026
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School enrollment numbers have decreased markedly in Connecticut in the past two years.—
Sasha Allen,
Hartford Courant,
16 May 2026
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Around the same time — the company quietly downsized its Shanghai store from four floors to two.—
Denni Hu,
Footwear News,
14 May 2026
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As unemployment rose and major employers closed down or downsized, many of my friends left our community as their families moved in search of jobs.—
Nicholas A. Giordano,
STAT,
8 May 2026
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The combination of an overloaded schedule, international travel and shortened preparation time increasingly produces mediocre matchups in premium television windows.—
Bobby Burack OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
14 May 2026
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Certain past emergency cases, such as the COVID pandemic, were exceptions in which those wait times were drastically shortened.—
Adam Kovac,
Scientific American,
12 May 2026
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Another theory suggests regulatory changes in China a few years ago appear to have diminished the availability of precursor chemicals used to make fentanyl.—
Mike Stobbe,
Fortune,
13 May 2026
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The roles of China and Russia, as Iran’s allies, are strengthened; the role of the United States, substantially diminished.—
Robert Kagan,
The Atlantic,
10 May 2026
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Tailgating, an Arrowhead passion, figures to be abbreviated in a reduced Truman Sports Complex parking lot.—
Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
11 May 2026
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For a project with so many possible permutations, the final cut is rather abbreviated.—
Katherine Rochester,
Artforum,
1 Apr. 2026
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The resulting longitudinal pre-tensioning of the whole structure compressed the joints.—
Srishti Gupta,
Interesting Engineering,
16 May 2026
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That is why a hedge here makes sense while markets sit near highs, VIX remains compressed near the high teens, and investors are still leaning heavily into a handful of leadership names as the macro backdrop deteriorates.—
Tony Zhang,
CNBC,
13 May 2026
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His anxieties about other issues have lessened but this is as strong as ever.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Denver Post,
18 May 2026
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During these 10 years, the logical assumption is that children born in this era would have grown up in a time where Japanese anime was under more scrutiny and lessened in popularity.—
Kalai Chik,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
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“Minified.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/minified. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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