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Inside, the main floor has been commandeered by a mishmash of cash-only Asian food stalls, which gives it the feel of a makeshift street market.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
10 Dec. 2025 -
But to support new, massively heavier modern towers, engineers needed to drill dozens, even hundreds of augered cast-in-place (ACIP) piles – essentially, oversized columns to transfer the weight of a building through the mishmash of sand, silt and peat into deeper, more solid layers.—
Denise Hruby,
Miami Herald,
1 Dec. 2025
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The Nike leadership shuffle continues.—
Stephen Garner,
Footwear News,
20 Jan. 2026
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In the locker room, the goal is to manage this mix that has included the injection of Tyler Herro back into the starting lineup, the shuffle of Kel’el Ware to the second unit, and a rotation that remains unsettled.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
11 Jan. 2026
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Coffee tables aren’t just a practical way to corral clutter or add storage in your living room.—
Jacqueline Tempera,
PEOPLE,
22 Jan. 2026
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Digitize to protect memories, reduce clutter, and simplify access.—
Cori Sears,
The Spruce,
22 Jan. 2026
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France’s President Emmanuel Macron was another one caught in the maelstrom.—
Andrew Carey,
CNN Money,
20 Jan. 2026
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Iconic photographs from pioneering observatories of decades past, such as the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope, had shown this maelstrom as an extended haze around the nebula’s glowing iris.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
20 Jan. 2026
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The push and pull of the front also means a hodgepodge of temperatures, with most places from Pittsburgh to the north seeing highs in the upper 40s and places south of Pittsburgh seeing highs in the low 50s.—
Ron Smiley,
CBS News,
21 Nov. 2025
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Steinway Street is the home of New York’s Little Egypt and also hosts a hodgepodge of cultures.—
Ramishah Maruf,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
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An array of expensive miscellany—a James Turrell work of pink L.E.D. panels, a Magritte, a Banksy, a few Warhols, a couple of Damien Hirsts—went under the hammer in Diriyah, the country’s ancient capital.—
Sam Knight,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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Ashmole also tried his hand at poetry, and the miscellany even contains a few of his pieces.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
10 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The Toronto Raptors, stuck in the morass of teams fighting for playoff/Play-In Tournament seeding, would surely rather finish higher rather than lower.—
Eric Koreen,
New York Times,
5 Jan. 2026
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But uneven enforcement and a growing list of exceptions have created a regulatory morass that is stifling the continent’s transformation.—
Eric Schmidt,
Time,
11 Dec. 2025
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The neutral design appeals to people of all genders and with a motley of styles.—
Olivia Young,
Travel + Leisure,
29 Dec. 2025
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This week’s foe, Tennessee, is almost as motley.—
Kevin Cusick,
Twin Cities,
25 Dec. 2025
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“Bollix.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bollix. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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