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The service network was originally patterned on the Federal Reserve, flying checks between banks in a region to a central clearinghouse to speed clearing transactions.
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Jerrold Lundquist,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2025
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Vogue,
20 June 2025
Jockeys riding for the syndicate wear blue and white striped silks that match Brighton’s colours.
Inside the residence, police found a trail of blood that led from the front door to the bathroom, where the dog was found curled up in a ball on the floor, which was flecked with blood.
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John Lynch,
Arkansas Online,
17 June 2025
Emond’s script deftly contrives a third act that’s hopeful but still flecked with genuine despair.
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The marbling itself is called shimofuri and makes for tender cuts of beef that melt in your mouth.
The 656-foot vessel, called the Golden Ray, has been lying since early September off a slice of the Georgia coast specked with resorts and sprawling high-dollar homes.
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New York Times,
New York Times,
16 Nov. 2019
Now, their territory has fewer than 1,000 residents and consists of about 7,300 acres, with roads wandering through woods specked with modest family homes.
The parents were concerned by the illness that had speckled their children’s bodies and weakened their breathing, but their distrust of vaccines and hospitals ran deeper.
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Brandy Zadrozny,
NBC news,
4 June 2025
Lined with shops and restaurants, the highway rest in a bustling tourist area, where pedestrians often speckle its street sidewalks during the summer months.
Her right hand looked like the hands most people have, but her other hand was very flat, tinged purple and green, mottled like a fish’s belly, and hanging like a dead fish.
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Zadie Smith,
New Yorker,
30 June 2025
Remains of a Styrofoam food container, mottled with mud.
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