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Noun
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This recipe has more ingredients than that, but like any good casserole recipe, it’s made mostly of affordable pantry staples and can feed a lot of mouths without racking up the grocery bill.—
Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
1 Feb. 2026 -
The Sharks are continuing a five-game road trip with a bad taste in their mouth after back-to-back losses to end a three-game Canadian road swing.—
Christian Babcock,
Mercury News,
1 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Under the noses of her family, Kelly’s business team, and the revolving door of yes-people in his recording studio and homes, the book details how Kelly stealthily groomed the middle-schooler in plain sight.—
Cheyenne Roundtree,
Rolling Stone,
31 Jan. 2026
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Through this sly trick, where doorknobs rise to noses and walls tower high above the hairline, Argento sketches a vision of witchy terror akin to early works of German surrealism.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Jan. 2026
Noun
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On a rainy day last week, the green sea turtle pumped her limbs and stretched her beak up to chomp a lettuce leaf floating on the surface of a tank at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach.—
Lila Seidman,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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The study bird, a Eurasian blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus), with a caterpillar in its beak.—
GrrlScientist,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Instead, the desire to survive generally wins out over lingering to admire the predator’s sizable claws or snout shape.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
29 Jan. 2026
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The animal, which sported two horns on its snout, was comparable in size to modern rhino species.—
Jeanne Timmons,
Scientific American,
14 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The animal dislodged the boy’s mandible, left a groove in his skull, broke his clavicle and left a bite mark on his right ankle.—
Sara Novak,
Scientific American,
27 Jan. 2026
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On April 10 of this year, the dog was found with another bone — a femur this time — in the yard, and a search of the property also turned up a human mandible, or jawbone, that also belonged to the same victim.—
David Chiu,
PEOPLE,
25 Dec. 2025
Noun
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That hard-line stance came as some House Democrats voiced opposition to the stopgap funding for DHS, which was a compromise granted by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in order to scrap the original bill funding the agency.—
Zach LaChance,
The Washington Examiner,
2 Feb. 2026
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Last summer, when Wiener brought forward a second bill, some companies, including OpenAI, still sought alternatives, but others, such as Anthropic, went so far as to formally endorse it, and Newsom signed it.—
Nathan Heller,
New Yorker,
1 Feb. 2026
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“Neb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/neb. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.
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