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If your privacy practices have been less than perfect in the past—and whose have not, given the vanishingly tiny odds of evading every form of digital data collection—additional information about you from over the years is likely available from hundreds of data brokers.—
Andy Greenberg,
Wired News,
16 June 2025 -
Hundreds of Iranian missiles rained down across Israel beginning Saturday night, some of them evading the country's sophisticated defense systems.—
Rebecca Rosman,
NPR,
15 June 2025
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The candidates often dodged direct answers to moderators’ questions and instead jostled with each other.—
Jared Gans,
The Hill,
5 June 2025
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Caucus leadership, which typically opts to remain neutral in committee races, has dodged questions on whether age should play a role in selecting the next Oversight ranking member.—
Rachel Schilke,
The Washington Examiner,
5 June 2025
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The digital snapshot approach sidesteps these limitations entirely.—
Roger Dooley,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2025
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For decades, California has allowed vague allegations of gang involvement to justify policing that sidesteps our most basic constitutional protections.—
Sean Garcia Leys,
Oc Register,
10 June 2025
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“Pump-fake.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pump-fake. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
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