That work has included disposing of most of the furniture that was in the building and removing old ceiling tiles as part of abatement efforts, Tomlinson said.
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Idaho Statesman,
Idaho Statesman,
25 Aug. 2026
The practice of removing shark fins is banned across the region.
Mastering the clipping economy Some of Ossoff’s newfound fans know him mostly from clips — one or two-minute-long videos that travel wide and far on social media platforms.
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Brian Stelter,
CNN Money,
19 Aug. 2026
Murcko has been tapped to steer the company’s global revenue organization, overseeing brand partnerships, direct media sales, podcast sales, clipping and other brand and sponsorship activities.
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
Then, on August 6, the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, obliterating nearly five square miles of the city.
This has triggered a critical internal shift, with advocacy groups noting that the administration is actively erasing the diverse history and cultural representation that national parks protect.
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Kimmie Gordon,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Aug. 2026
Around that time, gold and silver had fallen to seven-month lows, erasing some of the gains the metals made during a historic price rally that ended in January of this year.
Tlaib is also a prominent critic of Israel; her rhetoric has been chastised by Jewish colleagues as an antisemitic call for eradicating Jews, a charge the congresswoman and her supporters reject.
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Anthony Man,
Sun Sentinel,
13 Aug. 2026
That method, called Sterile Insect Technique, was originally successful in eradicating flies from the United States and Central America and pushing the screwworm population back beyond the Darién Gap at the border of Panama and Colombia.
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.
Still, very much despite herself, Cusk has not succeeded in expunging character from her work.
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Becca Rothfeld,
New Yorker,
16 Aug. 2026
With Ukraine busy expunging Russian cultural influences, and cities and towns removing Russian historical and literary figures’ statues and street names, the idea of a new program focused on Ukraine’s former imperial master raised eyebrows.
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Howard LaFranchi,
Christian Science Monitor,
27 June 2026
Their struggle has upturned the tabletop candle that illuminates the scene and any moment will surely extinguish it, effacing the giddy pattern formed by the writhing bodies and glowing, veiny bladder skin.
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Julian Bell,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
The leaps in time have the eerie effect of effacing time—the layered succession of images implying their simultaneity in Lidia’s mind.
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