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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 -
Mirren has won a counting game of awards—among them, one Oscar, four BAFTAs, three Golden Globes, five Emmys, and one Tony—the list reads like a compendium of all the awards one could possibly be considered for.—
Valerie Monroe,
Allure,
14 Oct. 2025
Noun
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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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Users will be able to access their Wrapped summary through a pop-up in the Spotify app once it is released.—
Marina Johnson,
Louisville Courier Journal,
4 Nov. 2025
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The summaries below were drafted with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists in our News division.—
Real-Time News team,
Miami Herald,
3 Nov. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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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
Noun
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That’s because plyometrics involve quick movements and concentric (shortening) and eccentric (lengthening) muscle contractions.—
Jenny McCoy,
SELF,
24 Oct. 2025
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The doctor shortage was already acute and is contributing to a shortening of the lifespans of rural Americans, says Alan Morgan, CEO of the National Rural Health Association.—
NPR,
NPR,
15 Oct. 2025
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The nebula's haunting outline t is carved from swirling clouds of gas and dust inside a vast stellar nursery.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
31 Oct. 2025
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His process involved mapping the sun’s path, calculating angles, sketching outlines, and planning how light would travel across the surface, before burning the image onto a piece of untreated wood.—
TIME PR,
Time,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Compend.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/compend. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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