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Doing so every other day helps loosen any buildup of dead skin around the nail folds, which can sometimes lead to discomfort along the sides of the nails if left to accumulate.—
Morgan Fargo,
Vogue,
27 May 2026 -
While Motorola says its hinge is reinforced with titanium and has been tested to many thousands of folds, this is still a possible point of failure.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
27 May 2026
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Aside from many religious organizations, local grant recipients include Girl Scouts of San Diego-Imperial Council, Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest and San Diego LGBTQ Community Center.—
Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 May 2026
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The award places the AJC alongside leading national media organizations, with this year’s category featuring nominees from ABC News, National Geographic and MSNOW.—
Hugo Rojo,
AJC.com,
28 May 2026
Noun
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In the early 2000s, as home and mobile datafication provided computing and ICT capacity beyond specialized industrial applications, tech companies took aim at expanding their power through a wealth of networks.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 May 2026
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Ryan O’Leary, an American former fighter who led the Chosen Company volunteer unit in Ukraine, told me Ukrainian drone units need backups such as mesh radio networks, also known as MANET systems.—
David Kirichenko,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
Noun
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Many would be in communities that had been fundamentally altered — now missing parents, friends, even entire families.—
Jourdan Rodrigue,
New York Times,
28 May 2026
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Managed and feral honey bees also played critical roles in pollinating crops brought over by European settlers, including apple and cherry trees and clover, which provided food for livestock and their communities.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 May 2026
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Across the country, small colleges have been closing at an alarming pace, especially institutions that were tuition-dependent, undercapitalized, enrollment-fragile and vague in their market position.—
Christos Korgan,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 May 2026
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Examples of commencement speaker disinvitations have happened at small, private liberal arts colleges, as well as big, public universities.—
Austin Sarat,
Twin Cities,
29 May 2026
Noun
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Tuchel does not want dressing-room cliques and has put a premium on having a unified group pulling in the same direction.—
Dan Sheldon,
New York Times,
23 May 2026
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Corbett also thinks that deputy cliques existed at one point.—
Teagan Davidge,
Daily News,
14 May 2026
Noun
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The auteur can now cross another genre off his bucket list with The Samurai and the Prisoner (Kokurojo), a stately and rather stagy historical mystery set during the 16th century, at a time when warring clans fought and outmaneuvered each other for control of the land.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
24 May 2026
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Our story begins in the winter of that year, as Murashige — along with his wife Chiyoho (Yuriko Yoshitaka) and the small handful of clans loyal to their family — barricade themselves behind the peripets of Arioka Castle and wait for death to arrive at their doorstep.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
20 May 2026
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While such rings have been used to determine the presence of exoplanets around stars, this new research suggests a way to use those grooves to actually assess the characteristics of exoplanets, too.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
1 June 2026
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From the 1950s through the 1970s, computers stored data in ceramic rings called cores.—
Sadie Sartini Garner,
Pitchfork,
1 June 2026
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“Closed shops.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/closed%20shops. Accessed 2 Jun. 2026.
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