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In northern Virginia’s Loudoun County, the buzzing-windowless-behemoth capital of the world, every dollar in services provided to data centers returns twenty-six dollars in revenue, and that has allowed the county to lower its real-property taxes every year for the past decade.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
7 May 2026 -
On Wednesday, three pins were available for the buzzing audience, including one with a rainbow heart emblazoned with the words City of Boise.—
Idaho Statesman,
Idaho Statesman,
7 May 2026
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Julian rushed to Esparto, dialing Angel’s cell phone the whole way.—
Joe Rubin,
Sacbee.com,
6 May 2026
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Just dialing up the rate of dark matter–baryon interactions reshapes the halo from the inside out, redistributing mass in the galaxy’s core in under a billion years.—
Paul M. Sutter,
Scientific American,
6 May 2026
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My sister, Louise, had spent hours perfecting the screechy, imperious cry of Starscream, only to use it when phoning the takeaway and ordering curry sauce and chips.—
Douglas Stuart,
New Yorker,
12 Apr. 2026
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Efforts to reach Das and Cooper — including by phoning numbers and sending letters to addresses that appeared to be associated with them — were unsuccessful.—
David Hilzenrath,
Miami Herald,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Beeping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beeping. Accessed 11 May. 2026.
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