Brands, including sports leagues, understand that content clipping is both a marketing strategy and a way to engage with new and established audiences.
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Felipe Cardenas,
New York Times,
14 Sep. 2026
Murphy is engaging enough to keep things clipping right along (and Emma is a heroine very easy to root for), but things are at their very best when Emma and Luke are giving into their big feelings.
More than 1,000 people are dead and nearly 4,000 missing after a Himalayan glacial collapse unleashed catastrophic floods across the Nepal-China border, obliterating roads, towns and hydropower projects.
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Shristi Kafle,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Sep. 2026
Today, for a few brief moments, some one billion people experienced partly or fully dark skies as the moon passes directly in front of our star, obliterating its light.
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Claire Cameron & Lee Billings,
Scientific American,
12 Aug. 2026
Technically, the stock has made a round trip erasing all of its 2026 gains.
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Jay Woods,
CNBC,
10 Sep. 2026
The collective term lumped these women together, robbing them of individuality, and reducing them to merely decorative fixtures of Premier-league broadcasts while erasing their individual accomplishments.
The miniseries is only three hours long, so Wallace had to heavily truncate King’s gargantuan tome, curtailing and expunging scenes and entire characters, as well as toning things down to fit broadcast rules.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Aug. 2026
Still, very much despite herself, Cusk has not succeeded in expunging character from her work.
By cutting the number of working holiday visas, critics say, the government risks causing more economic pain.
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Hilary Whiteman,
CNN Money,
18 Sep. 2026
The state’s top law enforcement officer will not shed any light on why subpoenas were recently served on a slew of Broward County officials regarding the county’s efforts to explore cutting ties with the Broward Sheriff’s Office.
The quest for 500 million flies The only way the US has succeeded in eradicating screwworm is by breeding millions of flies, sterilizing them using radiation and dropping them in areas with infestations.
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Jen Christensen,
CNN Money,
7 Sep. 2026
The brand also claims that this sweeps away plaque rather than just blasting a hole through it, more effectively eradicating the sludgy bacteria.
Shares slumped 16% for a third straight session of losses, wiping out $400 billion in market cap on Monday alone.
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Gail Krishnan,
CNBC,
23 June 2026
The prospect of even a mini-Dust Bowl is alarming as the original disaster during the Great Depression sent dust clouds across rural America, wiping out entire communities and triggering mass migration to other parts of the country.
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