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Entertaining, originally published in 1982, has been out of print for years, but interest in the 300-recipe compendium that spawned Stewart’s business empire spiked last year, after CNN and Netflix both released documentaries about her.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
4 Nov. 2025 -
Lee Unkrich shared photos from the visit to the set in the 2015 compendium, Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.—
Angela Andaloro,
PEOPLE,
31 Oct. 2025
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At the start, Henry labored alone, and Frank applied himself to another joint project, an abridgment of the O.E.D.—
Ben Yagoda,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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The firm sued, calling the order a violation of the Constitution's First Amendment protections against government abridgment of speech and Fifth Amendment guarantee of due process - a requirement for the government to use a fair legal process.—
Mike Scarcella and David Thomas,
USA Today,
3 May 2025
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Residents were initially given a two-page summary.—
Arlyssa D. Becenti,
AZCentral.com,
11 Nov. 2025
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The final sequence was a perfect summary of the Horned Frogs’ weaknesses, as an improved defense struggled yet again to get off the field on crucial downs.—
Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
10 Nov. 2025
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The first two abbreviations are easy enough to understand.—
Mark Phelan,
USA Today,
27 Sep. 2025
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Joshua Jahn wrote using an abbreviation for armor-piercing, according to the FBI.—
Emerson Clarridge,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
26 Sep. 2025
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In this sense, the salt flats and their salty lakes are at once a living record and an ongoing recapitulation of billions of years of planetary history.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Oct. 2025
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The Word for World Is Forest envisions space exploration as a recapitulation of earlier colonial conflicts.—
Robert Rubsam,
The Atlantic,
21 June 2025
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What’s left of it was led, at least for a while, by a 29-year-old White House appointee who helped craft Project 2025, the right-wing blueprint that broadly calls for the curtailment of civil rights enforcement.—
J. David McSwane,
ProPublica,
18 Oct. 2025
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In past shutdowns, that has led to the closures of hundreds of national parks and museums, the curtailment of veterans' services, the suspension of health inspections, the postponement of immigration hearings and a slew of other impacts.—
Kevin Breuninger,
CNBC,
26 Sep. 2025
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By using shortening instead of butter, the cookies stay softer and fluffier.—
Lizzy Briskin,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 Nov. 2025
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Dissolve soda in milk; stir into shortening mixture.—
Molly Guthrey,
Twin Cities,
8 Nov. 2025
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Advertisement But that’s the outline.—
Andy Crump,
Time,
7 Nov. 2025
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According to Jin, the project is currently in the scene outline stage.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
4 Nov. 2025
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“Compend.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/compend. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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