The now-familiar push-button ignition has waffled between feeling premium and mundane, which is all to say that there’s no perfect formula for a car’s control scheme.
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TC Sottek,
The Verge,
27 May 2026
For one, action bias is not always bad — sometimes things genuinely need to get done, not waffled over.
Big shot guests popped up in the studio audience, including the actors Bryan Cranston, Paul Rudd, and Ryan Reynolds, who did a few bits and pattered about the host going off air; Colbert moved through the usual jokes about the day’s news.
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David Sims,
The Atlantic,
22 May 2026
As rain pattered against windows, and trees lining the streets swayed, flurries of urgent texts began ricocheting from one end of the neighborhood to the other, and panic set in as some residents put on their shoes and hurried out the door.
Guests have blabbed that things were definitely awkward during one of the newlyweds’ first dances to an undisclosed song by the celebrity performer, Marc Anthony.
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Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
21 Jan. 2026
But Cirie ended up telling her husband, and her husband blabbed to Trish.
For years, college coaches and NBA scouts have drooled over the potential of Stokes, a likely 2027 lottery pick.
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Lindsay Schnell,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2026
Keong says these pillow protectors slide easily over her puffiest pillows, wash up well at the laundromat, and help prevent her new pillows from getting too drooled-on to be presentable for overnight guests.
As the Rockies bumbled through the 2025 season, The Athletic asked rival executives about hypothetical ways to fix the franchise.
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Andy McCullough,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
After the Knicks bumbled away Game 1 and eventually lost the series in six contests, New York fired former Coach of the Year Tom Thibodeau after five largely successful seasons.
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