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In the plural and the choral, Wildcat Dome finds the appropriate form for its preoccupation with collective guilt, the sort that cannot be contained by a single being.—
Katie Kitamura,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025 -
This emphasis on women’s bodies and behaviors is especially conspicuous amid a broader cultural preoccupation with male virility.—
Lucy Tu,
The Atlantic,
11 July 2025
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Our inventory absorption rate of 4.5% indicates increasing balance between a seller’s and buyer’s market, which is a welcome change for buyers after trying to compete in the post-pandemic-era seller’s market.—
Collyn Wainwright,
The Tennessean,
15 July 2025
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Cyclists have used sodium bicarbonate for years to boost performance by helping mitigate the effects of lactic acid, making the legs feel less painful, but a historic issue has been stomach issues and slow absorption rates.—
Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
12 July 2025
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Long before Trump and his MAGA acolytes, Modi understood how the primal power of blood could be deployed against the delicate bloom of ideas and abstractions.—
Aatish Taseer,
Time,
15 July 2025
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The graphical user interface, which Apple popularized, adapted that file-and-folder paradigm into an abstraction of a desktop, where users would click and move those files around.—
Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic,
14 July 2025
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Beyond supplements, complementary methods like meditation, yoga, and acupuncture have been shown to enhance sleep quality.—
Ayesha Gulzar,
Verywell Health,
21 July 2025
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Schrecker’s No Ivory Tower is a granular account of the effect that the Red Scare had on American universities, as well as a broader meditation on the nature and history of academic freedom.—
Tyler Austin Harper,
The Atlantic,
21 July 2025
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“Absentmindedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/absentmindedness. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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