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The ban, which was featured in a Park Service compendium of regulations that dated May 20, went into effect after several protests at El Capitan made headlines.—
Abigail Adams,
People.com,
20 Aug. 2025 -
This book, more think-tank report than scholarly monograph, provides a useful factual compendium of background material about Polish defense policy—although the absence of an index or a digital version remains a major obstacle to its efficient use.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Aug. 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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The court later ruled that Congress’ efforts to impose similar limits with respect to noncitizens being detained at Guantanamo Bay under the Military Commissions Act of 2006 were an unconstitutional abridgment of habeas corpus rights.—
Andrea Seielstad,
The Conversation,
22 Apr. 2025
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Over time, as AI tools became more integrated into our daily workflows—think live financial reporting or even inviting AI agents to meetings (remember AI doesn’t have a career at stake) to provide unbiased summaries—employee trust grew, and skepticism diminished.—
Paul Hudson,
Fortune,
2 Sep. 2025
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They’re handed last month’s P&L and a cash flow summary, and assume that’s enough.—
Kirk W. McLaren,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Before the abbreviation stuck, the property was known as the Kildare Hotel and Golf Club.—
Mike Dojc,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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These terms are abbreviations for probability: a 10-year flood is a volume of flow that occurs on average once every 10 years, based on the records of flow for that stream.—
Ellen Wohl
August 20,
Literary Hub,
20 Aug. 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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The dullard cousin of the repetition family is redundancy, that almost onomatopoeic term for needless recapitulation.—
Namwali Serpell,
The New Yorker,
8 Mar. 2025
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The move to question Europe’s harsh CO2 curtailment rules coincides with Trump Administration efforts to terminate rules based on the case that CO2 is a danger to public health These rules form the basis for U.S. greenhouse gas regulations.—
Neil Winton,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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The curtailment of academic freedom, the deportation of foreign students, the banning of protests: all of this is being done under the pretext of protecting Jews, who alone are entitled to protections that other groups apparently don’t merit.—
Eyal Press,
New Yorker,
18 Aug. 2025
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Ree calls for 1 cup of shortening, such as Crisco, rather than butter in these cookies.—
Karla Walsh,
Better Homes & Gardens,
30 Aug. 2025
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Unlike the typical butter-and-water combo, the bakery uses a blend of vegetable shortening and milk, which keeps the crust extra flaky and tender, perfect for holding any filling.—
Alexandra Emanuelli,
Southern Living,
19 Aug. 2025
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The sheer gloss on her lips was given a high-contrast, rust-red outline that matched several shades of her eye shadow, which also included gold and navy blue.—
Marci Robin,
Allure,
1 Sep. 2025
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The outline of a tiny footprint in black ink stands out against a white sheet of paper lined with a pastel pink border.—
Lauren Mascarenhas,
CNN Money,
31 Aug. 2025
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“Compend.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/compend. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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