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Maddy essentially becomes Cassie’s pimp, hitting and threatening her, setting up an elaborate scheme to boost her online following, which Cassie successfully pulls off, thanks to a few fake orgasms.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
25 May 2026 -
And considering mineral sunscreens have a reputation for being thick, heavy, and generally a little too sunscreen-y, Ilia pulls off a serum-like texture that feels weightless.—
Christa Joanna Lee,
Allure,
22 May 2026
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Hitler comes to power; Lajos, by now a regional administrator, reluctantly carries out the Nazis’ orders, consigning the local Jewish population to death; Ilona and her husband flee to America by way of Switzerland.—
Becca Rothfeld,
New Yorker,
23 Apr. 2026
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The company showcased the upgrade in a video where Spot reads a handwritten to-do list and carries out tasks such as organizing shoes, picking up cans, and placing clothes in a laundry basket.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Apr. 2026
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These are fed through a hopper into the reactor vessel to produce a self-regulating fission reaction and are cooled by helium gas that carries off the heat to a heat exchanger to generate steam for electrical generators.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
20 Oct. 2025
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Starting on Saturday, daytime humidity levels are expected to be incredibly low as the region is expected to be hit with north winds up to 15 to 25 miles per hour, gusts ranging from 35 to 45 mph, and up to 50 mph in some local areas.—
Noe Padilla,
USA Today,
14 May 2026
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If the drone winds up anywhere inside its starting safe zone, the visual neural network guides it the rest of the way home.—
Jacek Krywko,
Scientific American,
13 May 2026
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Five women were injured overnight Sunday in a shooting near Indiana University following its annual Little 500 races which brings about alums and large crowds of spectators.—
Kiki Intarasuwan,
CBS News,
26 Apr. 2026
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Every Rayan Cherki drive into the box, every Jeremy Doku shimmy and dart, every menacing moment of intent from Haaland brings about an instant raising of our heart rates.—
Nnamdi Onyeagwara,
New York Times,
23 Apr. 2026
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The prototype system achieves motion-robust 3D tracking of mixed-reflectivity scenes at incredibly high frame rates.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
20 May 2026
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Once trapped, the ions are reduced to a ground state through lasers, similar to what freezing them at absolute zero achieves.—
Aldo Svaldi,
Mercury News,
19 May 2026
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Only through a RegalView strike and an Equisapiens uprising does Lift get his comeuppance; journalism accomplishes nothing.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
22 May 2026
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Neem oil accomplishes this thanks to an active ingredient called Azadirachtin.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
19 May 2026
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And yet this bird performs one of the most violent feats in the natural world.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
24 May 2026
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Opera singer Tim Blevins performs regularly outside San Francisco's Orpheum Theatre, where his powerful voice has become familiar to many passing through the Civic Center neighborhood.—
Loureen Ayyoub,
CBS News,
23 May 2026
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“Works (at).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/works%20%28at%29. Accessed 27 May. 2026.
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