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Flags from across the globe, including the United States, Mexico, Brazil and Spain, dotted the crowd.—Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 11 May 2025 Their friends moved from across the city into the house next door, and a third couple, the brother and sister-in-law of Raffi’s best friend, bought another home in the row.—Rhaina Cohen, The Atlantic, 11 May 2025
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Early Summer Blooming Cultivars and Hybrids Clematis lanuginosa ‘Candida’: Reaching up to 9 inches across, the brilliant, pure white flowers with yellow stamens grace the vine that grows 8 to 10 feet tall.—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 3 May 2025 Spanning approximately 220,000 light-years across, the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also contains the Milky Way, the Triangulum galaxy, and about 30 other smaller galaxies.—Miguel Claro, Space.com, 23 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for across
Pro-Palestinian groups urged the European Broadcasting Union to exclude Israel over Gaza, where more than 50,000 people have been killed in the ensuing offensive by Israel, according to local health officials.
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John Revill,
USA Today,
19 May 2025
Earle then posted a TikTok about the house, which went viral, amassing over 1.1 million views.
When visitors have passed through, Margouleff has been the one to set up the guitars—adjusting the action and pickups and intonation.
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Nick Paumgarten,
New Yorker,
19 May 2025
Paramount is trying to seal a multibillion-dollar merger with entertainment giant Skydance, a deal that will need approval from the Trump administration to go through.
It’s set in the (fictional) city of Eddington, NM, where the local sheriff, Joaquin Phoenix’s Joe Cross, tools around town responding to minor crises like noise complaints.
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Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
17 May 2025
Regardless of what the answers to questions surrounding AI assistants may be, companies like The Image are advancing conversations around what AI assistance could look like moving forward.
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