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The photography compendium spans 60 pages, and includes pictures from nine photography students.—
Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
20 May 2026 -
The idea was then taken up by other Scottish scholars, including James Frazer, whose widely read compendium The Golden Bough (1890) attempted to establish cross-cultural parallels in mythology.—
Glenn Adamson,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
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That, plus a picture of Lincoln’s stovepipe hat, remains its best abridgment.—
Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Memphis-Shelby County Schools Board candidates who are suing the Shelby County Election Commission over term abridgment had a win in court recently.—
Brooke Muckerman,
Memphis Commercial Appeal,
8 Jan. 2026
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The summary points above were compiled with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists.—
Jeff Rosen,
Kansas City Star,
22 May 2026
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The 192-page document, written by Paul Rivera, a Democratic consultant unaffiliated with the Biden and Harris campaigns, lacks key sections, including a conclusion and an executive summary.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
22 May 2026
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This is the page in the racing program full of numbers, abbreviations and lines that looks intimidating at first.—
Neil Greenberg,
New York Times,
1 May 2026
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Another downside is that many acronyms are not unique, so the same abbreviation can mean different things, even within a single field, said Kragh.—
Clarissa Brincat,
Big Think,
29 Apr. 2026
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The attack on the independence of Stars and Stripes is a powerful recapitulation of earlier moments in American military history, moments which make clear the blind alley down which Hegseth is charging his brigades at full speed.—
Bill McKibben,
The New York Review of Books,
27 Mar. 2026
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Nestled between an introduction section and an ending, Zhang found a familiar pattern: exposition, development and recapitulation.—
Stella Mayerhoff,
Mercury News,
19 Dec. 2025
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Sideris said Duke was the first utility to require such curtailments from hyperscalers to get them onto the grid more quickly.—
Jordan Blum,
Fortune,
25 Apr. 2026
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India is already rationing LNG supplies, according to a note S&P Global Energy shared with CNBC, which said power generation, refining, and petrochemicals are lower-priority sectors and therefore more exposed to curtailments.—
Priyanka Salve,
CNBC,
17 Apr. 2026
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Using the all-together method allows for safer substitution of oil for shortening, but both methods are fairly reliable when baking.—
Karla Walsh,
Better Homes & Gardens,
14 May 2026
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March is likely the final month a deal could be reached without shortening or significantly pushing back that year’s competition schedule.—
Evan Drellich,
New York Times,
12 May 2026
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Each panel is made of a flax-linen blend with delicate floral outlines of blooms and leaves.—
Caley Sturgill,
Southern Living,
23 May 2026
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The union says the strike is the fault of the MTA for not accepting the outline of a deal endorsed by two different federal panels that looked into the bargaining positions of the two sides.—
Hanna Ziady,
CNN Money,
18 May 2026
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“Compend.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/compend. Accessed 24 May. 2026.
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