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Six construction workers were killed and traffic and the supply chain where snarled for several months.—
Adam Thompson,
CBS News,
20 May 2026 -
Price pressures have only increased since the war with Iran snarled tanker traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, triggering a spike in the cost of crude oil and gasoline.—
Scott Horsley,
NPR,
13 May 2026
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But Stratos wasn’t designed to use a combination of energy sources; as a state official remarked at an April 22 meeting of the Box Elder County Commission, the project will be powered 100 percent off the Ruby Pipeline, a natural gas line that crosses northern Utah from Wyoming en route to Oregon.—
Mary Jane Gibson,
Rolling Stone,
17 May 2026
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The service is currently funded by ads — some from pharmaceutical and medical device companies — on its app and website, though many of the clinicians interviewed for this article remarked that the ads were either unobtrusive or nonexistent.—
Jared Perlo,
NBC news,
13 May 2026
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Wonyoung is not the only K-pop figure to have commented publicly on the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack.—
Hannah Abraham,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
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He’s not commented on the possibility in recent months.—
Gary Bedore
May 22,
Kansas City Star,
22 May 2026
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Her team quickly put together a plan to help coördinate repairs, secure new electrical generators, implement a triage system, and organize trainings for staff.—
Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
15 May 2026
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The Bengals, who at one point trailed 6-1, put the game on ice with eight runs in the bottom of the sixth.—
Tony Baranek,
Chicago Tribune,
15 May 2026
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Post-Emergent Herbicides Although there are herbicides that are specifically formulated to kill grassy weeds, combating unwanted grass with herbicides should be your last resort.—
Nadia Hassani,
The Spruce,
23 May 2026
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The durable drugstore polish is formulated to last up to 15 days sans a UV light.—
Kyra Surgent,
InStyle,
23 May 2026
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Wheated bourbon used to be a connoisseur’s side quest, something whispered about in liquor stores while hunting for Weller or Pappy.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2026
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Its impact doesn’t hinge on a late revelation; in fact, the truth about the hurt that lies between these characters is whispered unequivocally throughout, and at one point illustrated explicitly.—
Carlos Aguilar,
IndieWire,
15 May 2026
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Some of the Native Americans depicted in these pages are clad with only a deerskin loincloth.—
Peter C. Mancall,
The Conversation,
25 May 2026
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Guests will find raw concrete, ribbed glass, plenty of velvet and bubblegum-hued rugs, and walls clad in cork for the kind of insulation used in recording booths of the 1960s.—
Lindsey Tramuta,
Travel + Leisure,
23 May 2026
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Video shows immigration authorities shoving a woman through a line of masked and armed guards and threatening to deploy pepper spray as protesters shouted at the agents.—
Robert McGreevy,
FOXNews.com,
26 May 2026
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Goldberg shouted with her arms outstretched.—
Joey Nolfi,
Entertainment Weekly,
21 May 2026
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“Ripped (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ripped%20%28out%29. Accessed 27 May. 2026.
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