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Adjective
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Add coarse sand or perlite to improve drainage—this will prevent root rot.—
Helena Madden,
Martha Stewart,
3 Feb. 2026 -
To create your own mix, use a combination of two parts potting soil and one part perlite or coarse sand to grow your spider plant in.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
3 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Facing huge manpower pressures as its war in Ukraine nears the four-year mark, Russia actively promotes the participation of African recruits in its army as part of a broader PR narrative.—
Larry Madowo,
CNN Money,
4 Feb. 2026
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Rather than functioning as a static model, the LPM serves as the core of Carbon AI, a broader decision-making framework that supports both the LaserWeeder platform and the company’s Autonomous Tractor Kit (ATK).—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups Whole Foods’ Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups are also getting a fresh new Valentine’s look, for those in search of a rich and salty treat.—
Sophia Beams,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 Feb. 2026
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With a nice balance of milk chocolate and peanut butter, and a peanut butter filling that wasn’t too sweet or too salty, this was the easy favorite for our editors.—
Melinda Salchert,
Southern Living,
7 Feb. 2026
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Patients accused Heaps of groping them, performing unnecessarily invasive examinations and making suggestive comments.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
3 Feb. 2026
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The report noted some mottling and nodules in the liver and a spleen with one hypoechoic mass and multiple similar nodules suggestive of hemangiosarcoma.—
Dr. John De Jong,
Boston Herald,
1 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The most massive stars are going to be hotter, larger, bluer, more luminous, but also shorter-lived than the less massive stars.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
6 Feb. 2026
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The Olympic torch is a blue-green shade, and the Paralympic torch is gold.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
6 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Sounds a little salacious, yes?—
Brittany Anas,
Denver Post,
27 Jan. 2026
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Lawyers for the coaches argued that the presence of a salacious video should not result in a harsher penalty than the warnings and disqualifications that FIS has issued for equipment violations in the past.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
15 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Kanto practitioners believe that women cannot participate because, according to Japan's Shinto religion, women's blood from menstruation and childbirth is considered impure for the purpose of religious rituals.—
Anthony Kuhn,
NPR,
3 Nov. 2025
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Their inclusion underlines the wider context of the film, provoking the audience to hold these pure and impure images together.—
Jourdain Searles,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Oct. 2025
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Over the last several seasons of the Movies Fantasy League, the one thing that’s been more consistent than the movies, the awards, or Timmy Chalamet scoring a hit in December has been all you players coming up with some of the most clever, goofy, dumb, sometimes filthy names for your teams.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
3 Feb. 2026
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Traditional mops move filthy water, conventional vacuums push fine dust back into the air and cleaning cloths need to be rinsed to maintain hygienic conditions.—
William Jones,
USA Today,
1 Feb. 2026
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“Coarse-grained.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coarse-grained. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.
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