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The most seasonably warm temperatures this weekend will be over parts of the Mississippi Valley, where high temperatures will be in the 90s from the Deep South up to Minnesota and South Dakota.—
Kyle Reiman,
ABC News,
13 Sep. 2025 -
Boston is in for a week of mostly dry weather and seasonably moderate temperatures, according to National Weather Service forecasts.—
Grace Zokovitch,
Boston Herald,
7 Sep. 2025
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Within seconds of inhaling the foul odor, the white dog springs back in disgust and hastily shuffles to the other side of the bed, as though trying to escape the smell altogether.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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Opponents have railed against the issue over the past several days, framing it as a byproduct of Republicans hastily passing a map without enough information.—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
18 Sep. 2025
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Their emotional swings may trigger your own stress, but reacting impulsively can worsen the situation.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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The boys were also less likely to act impulsively, while growing more sensitive to the difference between reward and punishment.—
Maria Morava,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
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Barry Lian, a 24-year-old master’s degree graduate from southeastern China who spent three years studying in the US, had dreams of working on Wall Street – until his student visa was abruptly revoked last July.—
Joyce Jiang,
CNN Money,
13 Sep. 2025
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The shocking assassination of the Turning Point USA co-founder abruptly ended the event as thousands ran in panic and left the nation reeling.—
Emma Bussey,
FOXNews.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Worden tells me in an interview that Harvard scholar Robin Wordsworth, his co-author on a recent Red Planet study and one of the top American experts on terraforming Mars, is now designing compact astronaut outposts that can be positioned inside lava tubes and speedily inhabited.—
Kevin Holden Platt,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Cheap cameras boomed in the 1960s, when the Polaroid Instamatic began producing color prints speedily.—
Pat Tompkins,
AFAR Media,
25 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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On its face, recklessly slashing the federal funds rate by 150-bps would escalate long-term interest rates.—
Tiana Lowe Doescher,
The Washington Examiner,
19 Sep. 2025
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The 19-year-old made two deliberately wrong choices — to drive recklessly and to disregard police actions, Johnson said.—
Kelli Arseneau,
jsonline.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Following on from last year's 34th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at MIT, the 35th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize night took place at Boston University on September 18, celebrating real research with delightfully sideways investigative questions – and unexpectedly useful answers.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
19 Sep. 2025
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Someone could waltz in unexpectedly, challenging you to grow and live up to your potential.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
19 Sep. 2025
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In the end, the 77th Annual Emmy Awards served as both a nostalgic tribute to television’s rich past and a clear testament to its rapidly evolving future.—
Marc Berman,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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The decades-long strategy of cramming more transistors into the same chip area is rapidly approaching its practical limits, and conventional methods may no longer deliver consistent performance gains.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Sep. 2025
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