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Adjective
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Since then, the bustling market serves the surrounding and significant Latino community and others.—
Susan Selasky,
Freep.com,
26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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This is important because these are not peripheral software tasks.—
Karl Freund,
Forbes.com,
14 May 2026
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While the camera is locked into Dua’s perspective, the world outside her peripheral vision changes radically in ways we aren’t allowed to see; the corner of the frame practically become a venue from which to intuit horrors.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
13 May 2026
Adjective
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The saints’ days are celebrated, the great days of history are celebrated, and they’re celebrated with this sort of enormous exuberance and deep investment that is somehow very, very touching, very embracing, and very inclusive.—
Terry Ward,
AFAR Media,
2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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For a successful but not world-conquering rapper like Rashad, making a living relies on making sure that fans continue to feel connected to him.—
Kelefa Sanneh,
New Yorker,
15 May 2026
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Delays increase across connected supply chains, and weaker vendors can quickly come under financial strain.—
Alex Saric,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
Adjective
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The Hunting Party‘s potent streaming numbers could explain why the show is being kept alive despite the fact that NBC’s entertainment schedule is packed to the gills with no room, especially for a marginal linear performer.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
11 May 2026
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The Storm Prediction Center, part of the National Weather Service, has placed the southern portion of the Kansas City forecast region under a marginal risk, Level 1 of 5, for severe weather.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
10 May 2026
Adjective
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The sphere at the top of the node bobs in the water, with the attached tube oscillating water within it, spinning turbines inside the structure that generate electricity.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
14 May 2026
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There’s a lot of fear about what’s going to happen with this thing that people feel attached to.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
12 May 2026
Adjective
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Znotins acknowledges that the airline makes prices for those non-connecting trips expensive to discourage non-connecting customers from booking them.—
Talia Soglin,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Apr. 2026
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Gateway is modified to first repair the old 1910 tunnel immediately and construct a more economical new tunnel (without expensive and unneeded bench walls and cross-connecting passageways) and link it directly into Penn Station.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
16 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The now 27-year-old joined fellow La Liga side Elche on loan for the rest of the season in late August but has not been able to establish himself as first-choice there.—
Laia Cervelló Herrero,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2026
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The rising senior joined teammate Giacomo Sanfilippo, a linebacker, as the first three commitments from the Orlando area’s 2027 class.—
Chris Hays,
The Orlando Sentinel,
25 Apr. 2026
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“Circumjacent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/circumjacent. Accessed 17 May. 2026.
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