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With his identity now known, the department said, investigators are working to resolve the 45-year-old case and confirm whether the killing is tied to Randy Steven Kraft, alternately known as the Scorecard Killer, the Southern California Strangler and the Freeway Killer.
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Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 13 May 2025
With mixer on low speed, gradually add the flour mixture to butter mixture alternately with sour cream mixture, beating until nearly combined.
—Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 11 May 2025
The result is a palpable mixture of Hollywood and British sensibilities, alternately brash and cozy-quirky, with the joins sometimes awkwardly felt.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 6 June 2025
To put it bluntly, this is an alternately weird and unsettling time to be in the news business — especially so for the cable news business.
—Andy Meek, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
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Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 13 May 2025
With mixer on low speed, gradually add the flour mixture to butter mixture alternately with sour cream mixture, beating until nearly combined.
—Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 11 May 2025
The result is a palpable mixture of Hollywood and British sensibilities, alternately brash and cozy-quirky, with the joins sometimes awkwardly felt.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 6 June 2025
To put it bluntly, this is an alternately weird and unsettling time to be in the news business — especially so for the cable news business.
—Andy Meek, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
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These behaviors are not explicitly programmed but instead emerge as a result of the model’s interaction with the reinforcement learning environment.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
7 July 2025
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While most houses of this era were a chaotic collection of rooms and meandering hallways, the Robie House (and most of Wright’s homes) instead has an open floor plan—a revolutionary design choice at the time.—
Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
7 July 2025
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“Alternately.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alternately. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.
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