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As a result, demand for AI-capable processors has outpaced production capacity, and prices for components at the chokepoints are spiking.
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These earnings, which have outpaced his real estate business, have sparked concerns about potential conflicts of interest.
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Of course, Carly’s kitsch far outdid her neighbors’ in its oddness, luridness, lavishness.
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Somehow, though, the Royals outdid themselves Monday night with a nauseating defeat — one that conjured the immortal wisdom of former Royals manager Buddy Bell.
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The search has now surpassed the first 72 hours –– the most critical window for finding survivors.
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But, in the decades that followed, other cities caught up and eventually surpassed New York; one of them was Ibiza, where clubs like Pacha showed vacationing Europeans how to rave all night.
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Fans sang the 1971 anthem in unison after the USMNT topped Australia 2-0, perhaps becoming a new tradition for soccer fans.
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So do savings accounts, CDs and gold, the asset classes that topped the Gallup poll at times in the Great Recession era.
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This year, the usual backyard cookouts and fireworks are being eclipsed by once-in-a-generation celebrations marking the nation’s 250th birthday.
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That power is not wholly spent, nor wholly eclipsed, by anti-democratic forces.
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Then Pulisic outran the defense and buried a goal off a pass from Ricardo Pepi.
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For decades, sales teams often outran product teams.
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Between 2022 and 2024, public cash injections exceeded 10%of GDP, according to a study published last year by the Institute of Economics and Peace, an Australian think tank.
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If the cost of tokens has already exceeded the cost of the employees they were meant to replace, when does the comparison start running in the other direction?
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James excelled immediately with Anthony Davis after pushing the Lakers to acquire him.
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Born in Richmond's West End, the Jasper twins excelled on the track field as hurdlers and in school, serving as co-valedictorians of John Marshall High School.
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“One-upped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/one-upped. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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