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Matthew, 56, wore a blue suit, casual shoes and a white shirt sans tie for their date night, while Camila, 43, dressed in a loose-fitting all-black outfit with white sneakers.—
Tommy McArdle,
PEOPLE,
6 May 2026 -
Then The Hills alum, dressed like the Caped Crusader, leads a diverse group of residents into the courtroom to throw tomatoes and take back their city.—
James Hibberd,
HollywoodReporter,
6 May 2026
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The Angels have been on a road trip all week but a team spokesman said Tuesday that the stand has been cleaned and will be reinspected ahead of a homestand that begins Friday against the New York Mets.—
Steve Henson,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2026
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The Hyundai, when detectives looked at it, appeared to have been recently cleaned, according to the court document.—
Dan Sullivan,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 Apr. 2026
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The Israeli military has been publishing videos on social media and in releases to the press showing entire neighborhoods eviscerated in seconds, the concrete homes and shops erupting into clouds of dust at the push of a detonator.—
Kat Lonsdorf,
NPR,
30 Apr. 2026
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Courts have allowed the broad electronic privacy protections in the federal Wiretap Act to be eviscerated by companies claiming consent.—
Anne Toomey McKenna,
The Conversation,
21 Apr. 2026
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Who knows if, in this upside-down world that currently weighs on her, the june bug can see the nearby corpse of another beetle, accidentally disemboweled by the home’s owner hours before, the white fat peeking out from her rear end like the materialization of her dying breath.—
María Ospina,
The Dial,
31 Mar. 2026
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Florida recently disemboweled college-level sociology textbooks.—
Megan Thiele Strong,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Mar. 2026
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Nearly half of the gold extracted by the company comes from the Haile site in rural Lancaster County.—
John Marks,
Charlotte Observer,
1 May 2026
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Rare earth minerals are often extracted by creating leaching ponds and adding chemicals to separate the metals.—
Abraham Nunbogu,
Fortune,
29 Apr. 2026
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“Boned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boned. Accessed 9 May. 2026.
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