During the final phase of the war in Gaza, Israel and the United States caused significant military and economic damage to Houthi strongholds in Yemen.
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April Longley Alley,
Foreign Affairs,
11 Sep. 2026
The city remains one of Ukraine’s last strongholds in the Donbas region, but the Russians are getting dangerously close.
The problem is, these companies act much more like private enterprises than bastions of science.
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Matthew Sun,
The Atlantic,
4 Sep. 2026
Perhaps because the Venice Biennale remains one of the few bastions in the world defending freedom of expression, regardless of geographical origin or nationality.
September transforms open fields, roadsides and mountain meadows into bold, vivid landscapes of brilliant yellows, purples, reds, whites and other hues.
—
Charles Seabrook,
AJC.com,
5 Sep. 2026
These rules exactly correspond to the monotone Boolean functions—a function type crucial in fields such as cryptography and voting theory.
—
Emma R. Hasson,
Scientific American,
5 Sep. 2026
The hiring rules were one of several fronts senators opened Tuesday.
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CBS News,
CBS News,
16 Sep. 2026
Against the Tigers’ veer-and-shoot-style offense, the Red Wolves played a lot of three-man fronts with three high safeties and dropped eight defenders into coverage.
—
Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 Sep. 2026
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