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Cline also addressed her new look directly with a cheeky photo dump on Instagram last weekend.—Emma Banks, InStyle, 6 Feb. 2026 There are up to three coolers with different flavors lined up for the players to grab and dump on their coach.—J.j. Bailey, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026 Skills coach John McLean, who doesn’t travel with the team, also went the airport and shoveled out the entire traveling party’s cars, no small task with the amount of snow dumped on the region.—Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 28 Jan. 2026 On Saturday, the system pushed towards Virginia, with the forecast calling for a foot of snow or more to be dumped on parts of the Ohio Valley and Mid-Atlantic, while New England endured double-digit subzero temperatures.—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 25 Jan. 2026 What to know to start your day Memphis-area school districts have already called off classes for Monday after several inches of snow, sleet and ice were dumped on the Mid-South.—Corinne S Kennedy, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 24 Jan. 2026 Authorities seized more than 120,000 liters, or 31,700 gallons, of toxic chemical waste that the criminals usually dump on land or in streams.—CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026 Tamma, who is gay, is a roiling stew of adolescent emotions further fueled by physical abuse suffered in childhood at her father’s hands and by the neglect and disdain dumped on her by her mother.—Stuart Miller, Oc Register, 20 Jan. 2026 What’s worse, much of the world’s garbage is mismanaged – dumped on land, in waterways and in open dumps in cities and towns.—Kate O'Neill, The Conversation, 6 Mar. 2023