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Treating STIs also improves your overall health and can help stop the spread of STIs to your partner.8 A Quick Review Vaginal ulcers are small sores or bumps on your vaginal or vulvar area. Wendy Wisner, Health, 28 Feb. 2025 Up to 40% of Ukraine's overall critical mineral deposits are in areas currently under Russian occupation, Benchmark Minerals Intelligence analyst George Ingall tells the WSJ. Ben Geman, Axios, 28 Feb. 2025
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The league’s least valuable team, the Cincinnati Bengals at $4.71 billion, ranked No. 52 overall. Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 26 Feb. 2025 Speaking at a packed out EFM masterclass on film financing and packaging, Sutherland acknowledged that the L.A. fires had meant for a tough start to the year for the indie community, but said overall the outlook was bright. Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 14 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for overall
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  • The Mavericks have endured a number of injuries to their roster, and the loss of Dončić is something no one saw coming due to the ownership and general manager Nico Harrison.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025
  • These three new books explore such decelerations, and seek to move from urbanism toward a more general political philosophy.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
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  • The Dow ended the day up 601 points, or 1.39%, while the broader S&P 500 rose 1.59% and the Nasdaq Composite gained 1.63%.
    John Towfighi, CNN, 28 Feb. 2025
  • OpenAI said the new model features a broader knowledge base, better emotional intelligence and improved contextual understanding, and supposedly has fewer hallucinations— referring to when AI models produce inaccurate or misleading results.
    Danielle Chemtob, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
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  • So far, the collapse in American support for Ukraine has mostly been confined to wild theater in foreign capitals.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 8 Mar. 2025
  • As of late, Goodman, an Oscar winner, has been working mostly in the TV space.
    Jack Dunn, Variety, 8 Mar. 2025
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  • As a job seeker, understanding what makes recruiters and hiring managers cringe could mean the difference between a job offer and a generic rejection email.
    Caroline Castrillon, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Efforts to onshore drug ingredients for security purposes don't do much if they're not targeted at generic drugs, of which the vast majority come from China, said Mariana Socal, associate professor of health policy and management at Johns Hopkins University.
    Tina Reed, Axios, 27 Feb. 2025
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  • The next four largest egg producers are privately held, so their financial data are not public.
    Katherine Faulders, ABC News, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Under Idaho law, a private citizen can arrest someone when a public offense was committed or attempted in their presence or when someone has committed a felony in or out of their presence, and the citizen has reasonable cause to believe the person committed the crime.
    Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 8 Mar. 2025
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  • Not by much—performance was generally fine, but with more visible stutters.
    Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Influencing Bitcoin’s Correlation with Liquidity While bitcoin generally follows liquidity trends, its price movements also depend on timing, bitcoin-specific events, and its own internal liquidity dynamics.
    Marie Poteriaieva, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
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  • Social practice art in Latin America existed mainly through the efforts of small, noncommercial, artist-run initiatives within the fractious context of political agitation and protest.
    Fabiola Iza, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Since then, the company has closed 700 stores, mainly on the West Coast, and is selling off its Worldpac division as part of a three-year plan to return to growth.
    Zachery Eanes, Axios, 28 Feb. 2025
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  • This exceptional home is in what is known as a popular neighborhood.
    James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 9 Mar. 2025
  • The Gossip Girl cast — which also includes Ed Westwick, Chace Crawford and Penn Badgley — have had several reunions since the popular series ended after six seasons in 2012.
    Bailey Richards, People.com, 9 Mar. 2025

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