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Recent Examples of aftertastesOur editors liked the creamy texture and balanced flavor of this frosting, that didn't leave any unappetizing aftertastes or grit.—
Melinda Salchert,
Southern Living,
14 Mar. 2026 Many artificial sweeteners are known for aftertastes or digestive side effects, and some have raised consumer health concerns.—
Deirdre Bardolf,
FOXNews.com,
17 Jan. 2026
Aerial video of the blaze showed smoke billowing from numerous beachside buildings, with large gray plumes of smoke casting dark shadows on the beach's turquoise waters.
There may be echoes of history on George’s first day.
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Erin Hill,
PEOPLE,
25 June 2026
Instead of a handheld probe sweeping across your skin, a ring of transducers surrounds the body underwater and fires sound waves from every angle at once, reconstructing a full 3D volume from the echoes.
Trade-secret doctrine, computer-fraud rules and contract terms all touch the issue, but none were written with tens of millions of API calls and synthetic reasoning traces in mind.
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Craig S. Smith,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
Her collection preserves not only the traces of a public life, but evidence of a performer who refused to separate politics from performance and performance from ephemerality.
The ghosts of 1982 Austrian coach Ralf Rangnick was asked multiple times at a news conference Friday outside of Arrowhead Stadium about that shocking game at the 1982 World Cup.
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Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
26 June 2026
At Ojai, Lewis wistfully performed the solo prelude off in Libbey Park shrubbery as if a dallying forest spirit summoning ghosts of festivals past.
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Classical Music Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
23 June 2026
But the First Amendment is more than a few eloquent phrases about free speech, and its principles are far from historical relics.
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Nicole Russell,
USA Today,
18 June 2026
Even the rarest materials—Basra pearls, Golconda diamonds—get new life in a striking pair of earrings from Santi that mimic Maharaja ornamentation without feeling like ancient relics.