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Top 6: Perez gets A&M insurance Mya Perez blats an two-run home run to extend A&M's lead 7-1, but back-to-back flyouts end the inning.—
Zoe Collins Rath,
Austin American Statesman,
14 Mar. 2026 Crews were blatting the flames to avoid impacts to neighboring businesses.—
Nikiya Carrero,
CBS News,
5 Mar. 2026 Your problem is that you were raised on fantasies of blatting muscle cars and Bueller-esque Ferrari Daytonas, and don’t know how to find something fun, affordable, and unexpected.—
Brett Berk,
GQ,
26 June 2017
Lee, 31, exclaimed, and the pair, mere moments after meeting, snapped a selfie as Gonzalez, 28, presented his Korean bulgogi beef quesadilla to the camera with a grin.
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Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2026
Navarro exclaimed, just before the show cut away to an ad.
Gratitude on a stage has rarely seemed more palpable than in Williams basking in the glow of the arena roar; here is someone who, in the spirit of Dylan and the actual words of Doe, has been beyond and back.
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Chris Willman,
Variety,
21 June 2026
Video taken from Vestavia Hills, a community in central Alabama, showed brown floodwater inundating local streets amid the roar of rain.
Guests range from ordinary commuters to figures like Cate Blanchett and Julian Casablancas, all subject to the same fluorescent lighting and ambient subway screech.
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Arushi Jacob,
Variety,
19 June 2026
Native to North America, eastern screech-owls are mostly gray, reddish-brown or brown with yellow eyes, according to the Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute.
Usually, a SpaceX test flight of a brand new spacecraft is accompanied with bellowing fanfare.
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Victor Tangermann,
Futurism,
24 June 2026
After the game, while Johnson was trying to explain the madness that had consumed his team, his answers were barely audible over the celebrity fan contingent bellowing their way out of the arena.
My personal highlights were the tender, lightly caramelized moo ping pork skewers with sticky rice, succulent tomato stracciatella sourdough toast, and copious flawless mango, which melted in my mouth like butter.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 Apr. 2026
Junior Heifers One building was filled with the almost deafening hum of high-power hair dryers and the occasional moo.
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Chris Torres,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Jan. 2026
Timbaland’s eerie, minimalist production — stuttering beat patterns, yawning silences between drum hits, synth riffs that bray and heave — was the ideal vehicle for Elliott’s slaloming, heavily syncopated raps.
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New York Times,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2026
My father mistakes it for the verb to bray, like a donkey.