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Matilda, his secretary, filled in the blanks and printed the important documents.—Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025 Parade has tried to fill in some of the blanks.—Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025 The friends said the prop gun only fired blanks.—Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025 Toklas filled in the blanks for him, sometimes unwittingly.—Judith Thurman, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025 Hissrich mentions needing to fill in a lot of the blanks left in that character's story in the books.—Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025 Underwood helped fill in the blanks, but didn't feel right splitting the credit evenly when James had done most of the work.—Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 19 Sep. 2025 Watkins ranks second among forwards for shots in the box (eight) but has failed to convert one big chance during this string of blanks.—Holly Shand, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025 Students could then be assigned a diagram of the water cycle with missing labels; filling in the blanks on the diagram offers them a hands-on activity to reinforce the information in the quiz.—Hannah Nwoko, Parents, 10 Sep. 2025
Repeat process a few times, just until a cohesive dough forms.
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Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
21 Oct. 2025
Here, artisans guide visitors through the basics of whittling and woodturning workshops, teaching you about the tools and techniques of one of the oldest forms of art.
This fall, as the district still faced about 100 teaching vacancies, Cassellius moved more staff from the district's central office into classrooms — with those classroom assignments being temporary until more classroom teachers could be hired.
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Rory Linnane,
jsonline.com,
17 Oct. 2025
Eight jobs opened last year, including that of the expansion team Golden State Valkyries, with seven vacancies filled by first-time WNBA head coaches.
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Jennifer Bringle,
Sourcing Journal,
14 Oct. 2025
The chain is routed through the center of the buoy, passes over a gypsy wheel, and descends again, while excess chain hangs freely to accommodate movement.
The package implements health certification requirements, voids contracts between brokers and consumers that require deposits and bans brokers from selling animals in the state.
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Caelyn Pender,
Mercury News,
13 Oct. 2025
In total, nearly 12 tons of grout — approximately 1,740 gallons — have been pumped into the famous ocher walls to fill existing voids.
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The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Sep. 2025
And anybody who ignores these issues does so at their peril.
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Kate Plummer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Oct. 2025
This willfully blinkered vision, or, more precisely, reëlection platform, ignores the cost in global opinion along with the moral and political fractures within Israel itself.
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