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At one point in his teenage years, Diaz was publicly humiliated by the football team who forcefully shaved his curly hair.—
Andrea Flores,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Mar. 2026 -
Walz and Ellison were humiliated and could not account for their blundering.—
Joe Soucheray,
Twin Cities,
7 Mar. 2026
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From her office at Aish, a Jewish educational institute with headquarters next to the Western Wall plaza, Geller can see where shrapnel dented and smashed rooftops, roads and a parking lot in the area.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
29 Mar. 2026
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Two dented blue bottles of Cuajo Titanium, a liquid coagulating enzyme used to curdle milk, remained on a wooden table, caked in mud.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
27 Mar. 2026
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The city was shamed into action.—
Faith Salie,
CBS News,
22 Mar. 2026
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She’s shamed and her businesses are closed down, and certainly no charity would touch her and a great deal more will come out.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
23 Feb. 2026
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Pulisic also botched a breakaway chance in the 45th minute when his pass for Weston McKennie in was too late, allowing Portugal’s defense to recover.—
Michael Cunningham,
AJC.com,
1 Apr. 2026
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Center fielder Oneil Cruz botched consecutive plays in the first inning, helping the Mets score five runs off a surprisingly ineffective Skenes (0-1), matching his career high.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
27 Mar. 2026
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Haphazardly propped on the ground with wiring and hardware exposed, the flags appear as symbols debased and emptied after centuries of misuse.—
Rachel Wetzler,
Artforum,
1 Feb. 2026
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Within this world no others exist, except as things to be debased.—
David Wingrave,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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The crisis ended hours later with three hostages and three hostage takers dead and an additional 14 people wounded.—
Graham Womack,
Sacbee.com,
4 Apr. 2026
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In October, a Border Patrol agent shot and wounded Marimar Martinez in Chicago, and in January, a Border Patrol agent fatally shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis just weeks after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot Renée Good in the same city.—
Alex Riggins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 Apr. 2026
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Officials in long-standing Iranian regional rival Saudi Arabia have been pressing for Iranian missile and drone capabilities to be degraded as much as possible before a US exit, to remove any future Iranian threat.—
Matthew Chance,
CNN Money,
2 Apr. 2026
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Witness The New York Times’ recent and significant revision of its previous position on the risks of legal marijuana, admitting that wide access and strong normalization have degraded public health.—
Kevin A. Sabet,
STAT,
1 Apr. 2026
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In the process, one robber violently shoved the store’s octogenarian owner to the ground, police said, leaving him bloodied and lacerated from numerous shards of glass.—
Jakob Rodgers,
Mercury News,
22 Dec. 2025
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Catherine’s right leg was lacerated to the bone and nearly amputated by a propeller.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
20 Oct. 2025
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“Queered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/queered. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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