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as in refining
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as in reprocessing
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The ship’s builder, Chantiers de l’Atlantique, first introduced the concept for a modern sailing cruise ship, known as Eoseas, in 2009 and has since continued refining the design for large passenger vessels.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
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Outside of Oviedo’s results, Early is likely to join Payton Tolle in the Triple-A rotation to continue refining his pitches and increasing his efficiency to get deeper into games.—
Jen McCaffrey,
New York Times,
13 Mar. 2026
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The pro game has a way of filtering out two-way players with haste.—
Justice delos Santos,
Mercury News,
18 Mar. 2026
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These organs are divided into hundreds of tiny filtering units that help expel a ton of salt.—
Sara Kiley Watson,
Popular Science,
18 Mar. 2026
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To do so was to send $80 million back to California coffers, rectifying a mistake made by the state controller’s office that mixed up the monthly K-12 education payments sent to 11 counties.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
11 Mar. 2026
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The complaints were communicated to upper management, including Matkom, who took several steps towards rectifying the problems in the building.—
Everett Eaton,
jsonline.com,
16 Feb. 2026
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The Los Angeles Times recently reported that Instawork, a staffing app that connects businesses with local hourly workers for same-day gigs, has been recruiting workers in Los Angeles to strap on headbands with a phone mount and record themselves cleaning their homes.—
Angela Yang,
NBC news,
20 Mar. 2026
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The measure would also apply hotel taxes to all charges, including resort fees, cleaning fees and in-room movie purchases — charges not currently subject to hotel tax.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Mar. 2026
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Haidilao’s corporate offices have yet to issue a statement clarifying the incident.—
Linda Zavoral,
Mercury News,
18 Mar. 2026
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But the Walker signing was clarifying in multiple ways, including that the Chiefs by committing to him now virtually must prioritize corresponding moves to revive the receiver room and add edge rusher(s).—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
16 Mar. 2026
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Additionally, Anthropic and OpenAI have both publicly accused Chinese labs of distilling their models.—
Mark Minevich,
Fortune,
12 Mar. 2026
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Commissioners praised Encinitas Brewing Company’s proposal to open a restaurant with beer-brewing and craft-distilling production capabilities in the Plaza Encinitas Ranch shopping center.—
Barbara Henry,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Mar. 2026
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In a nutshell, wastewater recycling works by first physically filtering the water, then subjecting it to reverse osmosis, and finally purifying it with ultraviolet light.—
Frank Landymore,
Futurism,
25 Feb. 2026
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When taken together in the evening, extra virgin olive oil and fresh lemon juice are said to act synergistically to create a gently purifying antioxidant blend.—
Beatrice Zocchi,
Vogue,
29 Jan. 2026
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Beyond conversion, AcePDF offers editing tools such as merging and splitting PDFs, compressing large files, extracting images, adding annotations, and creating interactive forms.—
StackCommerce Team,
PC Magazine,
20 Mar. 2026
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To meet that additional need, more mines will need to be opened, and extra production developed – including extracting residual copper from old mine debris that was previously viewed as having too little copper to be worth processing.—
Adam Charles Simon,
The Conversation,
19 Mar. 2026
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“Processing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/processing. Accessed 23 Mar. 2026.
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