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Dillard overtook Niceville in the 4×400 the night before by winning the final event for the 3A title.—
Gary Curreri,
Sun Sentinel,
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Côte d’Ivoire had been Jumia’s largest market by sales but Nigeria overtook it in this year’s first quarter, Dufay said, with a 42% year-on-year growth in gross merchandise value.—
Alexander Onukwue,
semafor.com,
8 May 2026
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As far as drugs are concerned, alcohol’s toll is only outpaced by the prolonged damage of tobacco.—
Lev Facher,
STAT,
12 May 2026
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Suspending the gas tax would likely provide only limited relief, as recent price increases have far outpaced the federal levy.—
Aimee Picchi,
CBS News,
11 May 2026
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The intense recruitment drive has accelerated since January, reflecting the increasingly crucial role of drone warfare in the conflict, now into its fifth year.—
Yuliya Talmazan,
NBC news,
12 May 2026
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Plans for how the offense, defense and special teams were going to look needed to be accelerated.—
Jeff Zrebiec,
New York Times,
12 May 2026
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Counting Stars has gone off as the favorite in three of her last four starts and outran her 11-1 odds in a second in the Grade 3 Honeybee.—
Geoff Clark OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
1 May 2026
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Buck’s Boy outran a stellar field of European and North American grass horses to take the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Turf in 1998 and was voted North America’s champion male turf horse.—
Neil Milbert,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Apr. 2026
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Wagner outstripped her fundraising, bringing in $182,000, but ended the period with less than $120,000 left in his account.—
Ben Paviour,
Sacbee.com,
25 Apr. 2026
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On Wednesday, the nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities released data through February showing that the reduction in Arizona has far outstripped other states.—
Nicole Santa Cruz,
ProPublica,
8 Apr. 2026
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The group has been unfairly caught up in the selloff in software names like Salesforce .—
Morgan Chittum,
CNBC,
9 May 2026
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The statement provided some statistics on the board’s decisions, but did not explain the board’s overall response to nurses caught up in the diploma mill scheme nor respond to questions about Bastien and other individual nurses.—
Annie Martin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
8 May 2026
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The last time a horse swept all three races was in 2018, when Justify galloped his way into the history books as the 13th Triple Crown winner.—
Alex Sundby,
CBS News,
1 May 2026
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On arrival, the owner’s free-roaming white horse, Artemis, galloped up to them for a nuzzle unprompted, as if welcoming them in.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 Apr. 2026
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The cooking is no-nonsense, from tortang talong, whole eggplant sealed in an omelet beneath a merry wreckage of pork, to lush tinola, chicken soup streaked with ginger.—
Ligaya Mishan,
New York Times,
11 May 2026
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The white objects sometimes streaked across the screen in less than a second, while others slowly glided through the air or were followed by the camera.—
Seung Min Kim,
Fortune,
9 May 2026
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“Arrowed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arrowed. Accessed 14 May. 2026.
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