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as in increased
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as in bloated
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The Wolverines increased their lead to 42 with less than a minute left in the fourth.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
9 Jan. 2026 -
And while famine has not yet emerged, food insecurity has increased, with most Cubans eating a limited diet and skipping meals.—
Joseph J. Gonzalez,
Fortune,
8 Jan. 2026
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This will go into a 264-mile (425-km) orbit and the single module will be inflated and the solar array deployed by ground control.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
8 Nov. 2025
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Having properly inflated tires with the right amount of tread can save you from hydroplaning, blowouts and even accidents.—
Charles Singh,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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Fans have flooded social media to share their support for Duff.—
Saba Hamedy,
NBC news,
7 Nov. 2025
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Vivid memories of countless nights spent watching bad cult movies with my childhood friends flooded my mind, accompanied by the energetic drum machine pulses and synthesizer melodies of famed B-movie composer Chuck Cirino’s score for Deathstalker II.—
Bear McCreary,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Nov. 2025
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Their belly will appear distended during the last 20 days of pregnancy, and their breast tissue will also be noticeably swollen.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Oct. 2025
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Jared Leucke said on the 911 call that his father shoved him, causing his knife to fall out of his pocket.—
Matthew Cupelli,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
7 Nov. 2025
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His memoir told of workhouse guards beating prisoners on the least pretense, and of one guard who regularly shoved prisoners down flights of stairs.—
Equal Justice Initiative,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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The new product enters a crowded market for towable camera rigs, which have proliferated outside big box stores, strip malls and construction sites since the pandemic.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
6 Jan. 2026
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Dials and buttons have really proliferated since then.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
5 Jan. 2026
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Yet the train of military vehicles that appeared was remarkably tame, a cavalcade of superannuated weapons platforms serving as a reminder of the degree to which the military-industrial complex, glutted with money and pampered by Congress, has run out of new ideas.—
Seth Harp,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
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Flanagan will have to run amidst a backdrop of evolving fraud scandals that have mushroomed under the Walz-Flanagan administration.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
5 Jan. 2026
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The industry has mushroomed from roughly 1,600 med spas in the US in 2010 to about 10,500 in 2023, according to the most recent trend report from the American Med Spa Association (AmSpa), which was released in November 2024.—
Deanna Pai,
Allure,
18 Nov. 2025
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“Bulked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bulked. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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