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The echoes of the past walked through the building, only fitting in a Philly-Boston postseason rivalry.—
Tony Jones,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2026 -
Her rock-climbing skills also come in handy when she’s trapped in a narrow gorge, and soon after when a hairy ascent provides echoes of the prologue.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Apr. 2026
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Natalia Bryant beams at the Calvin Klein euphoria Elixirs launch experience in Los Angeles on April 21.—
Katie Hill,
PEOPLE,
24 Apr. 2026
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The device works by comparing the time lag between two beams of light traveling through the fiber optic cable in the spiraling coils and back.—
Ameya Paleja,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Apr. 2026
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The system studied by the team is known as Cygnus X-1 (Cyg X-1), located 7,000 light-years away and one of the brightest sources of X-rays in the sky.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
21 Apr. 2026
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The neo-bluegrass musician took to social media Monday to post photos of himself laid up in a hospital bed, along with multiple X-rays of the nuts and bolts now holding his leg together.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
20 Apr. 2026
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A number of denouements follow in All That’s Left of You, including a jump forward into 2022, when Hanan and Salim, who now live in Canada, go back to Jaffa and find Salim’s old family home, a run-down oasis of the past in a city determined to forget its history.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
24 Mar. 2026
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If that happens, minor geomagnetic storms and bright auroras could follow.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Apr. 2026
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This image of Earth also hides two auroras, at the top right and bottom left of the planet.—
Chelsea Gohd,
Space.com,
22 Apr. 2026
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Officials said taking away the licenses could have drastic repercussions for countless industries that rely on commercial drivers and worsen the serious shortage of bus drivers currently impacting New York’s schoolchildren and their families.—
Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
24 Apr. 2026
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In what was framed as a protest against the report’s feared repercussions on the freedom of the press, the United States and the United Kingdom withdrew from UNESCO in 1984 and 1985.—
Stijn Joye,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
23 Apr. 2026
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Shadows, pink-colored halos, stripes on the moon, and the incandescent glow of the streetlights turned skyward illuminating the row of rooftops populated with what looked like angels holding hands.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Apr. 2026
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Chinese lanterns hover above their heads like red halos.—
Maddie Connors,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Mar. 2026
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If they do get relegated this season, the implications will be sizeable.—
Elias Burke,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2026
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But the Strait of Malacca would have much wider implications from a cargo trade standpoint, with the Ports of Singapore and Malaysia’s Tanjung Pelepas sitting at the channel’s southern entrance.—
Glenn Taylor,
Footwear News,
24 Apr. 2026
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“Afterglows.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/afterglows. Accessed 27 Apr. 2026.
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