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The rooms Judy likes to give each hotel a personality, but using Poldark as inspiration wouldn’t be nearly quirky enough for the Hutsons.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 May 2026 -
The stores will be roughly 20,000 square feet and exclusively accessible to gig workers using the retailer’s Spark delivery driver app to collect orders and bring them to customers.—
Glenn Taylor,
Footwear News,
15 May 2026
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Venezuela and the Caribbean nation — who in the 1990s signed a delimitation treaty establishing the terms for exploiting any hydrocarbon deposits on both sides of the border strip — share the Gulf of Paria, an inland sea at Venezuela’s westernmost end and south of the island of Trinidad.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
11 May 2026
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Breaking the sound barrier without breaking hardware moves us a step closer to fully exploiting this new mode of planetary exploration.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
8 May 2026
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Some see this as a way of making the World Cup final more accessible, leveraging it to a wider audience and taking the sport’s biggest moment to a higher level.—
Ben Church,
CNN Money,
15 May 2026
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Congressional Democrats are accusing Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr of leveraging merger reviews and broadcast licensing decisions to push companies to scrap diversity initiatives, raising alarms about political pressure inside a powerful independent regulator.—
Jessica Guynn,
USA Today,
15 May 2026
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Potter said companies across the travel industry are seeing the same trend – and milking it.—
Zach Wichter,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2026
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Simon has been milking for forty-eight years.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Apr. 2026
Verb
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There have been several cases of clergy abusing children in Sri Lanka, but the latest arrest involves the most senior monk to be accused of such a crime.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
11 May 2026
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According to the frenetic video, this means abusing the office photocopier and covering yourself in Post-its.—
Jon O'Brien,
Vulture,
11 May 2026
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“Commercializing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commercializing. Accessed 17 May. 2026.
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