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Speaker after speaker urged officials to double funding for the Department of Recreation and Parks, pointing to aging facilities, staffing shortage and stark disparities in access to green space across neighborhoods.—
Teresa Liu,
Daily News,
2 May 2026 -
It’s embedded in policies, practices and institutions, including health care, where disparities in diagnosis, treatment and access persist.—
Lisa Deaderick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 May 2026
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Their results support the hypothesis that limiting trait similarity allows the establishment of non-native parakeets at the local scale by reducing competition with native species due to trait dissimilarity.—
GrrlScientist,
Forbes.com,
16 Apr. 2026
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Each chapter is a head-spinning exercise in dissimilarity.—
Scott Hocker,
TheWeek,
14 Apr. 2026
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But now, there are early signs of a postcrisis divergence in fortunes between the two cities.—
Terry Castleman,
Los Angeles Times,
6 May 2026
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The divergence came as first-quarter earnings revealed a bottleneck in memory chips along with progress among the hyperscalers in developing their own in-house chip systems, such as Alphabet's TPUs and Amazon's Trainium chips.—
Tobias Burns,
CNBC,
6 May 2026
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Last weekend’s 1-0 win over Leeds in the FA Cup semi-final at Wembley was encouraging chiefly because, for the first time since January, Chelsea successfully managed to hold Premier League opposition at bay in relative comfort and control for an entire game.—
Simon Johnson,
New York Times,
4 May 2026
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San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan, one of the more moderate gubernatorial candidates, has been very vocal about his opposition to the tax, warning that the measure would ultimately cost the majority of Californians and sink the state’s innovation economy.—
Douglas Schoen,
Oc Register,
4 May 2026
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The source of the solar activity is a negative polarity coronal hole high-speed stream -- a fast-moving stream of solar wind that escaped the sun's atmosphere -- according to NOAA.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
6 Mar. 2026
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Practically a textbook polarity zone.—
Jay Woods,
CNBC,
26 Feb. 2026
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The variance with accustomed Goodspeed values is apparent from the very first moments, though the opening gambit fails due to an appalling lack of attentiveness from the audience.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
3 May 2026
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Some of that was definitely goaltending and short-sample variance, though.—
Corey Masisak,
Denver Post,
2 May 2026
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However, discrepancy is understandable due to the carcass coming ashore deflated, like a big creepy balloon with the air let out.—
Mark Price,
Charlotte Observer,
6 May 2026
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The suggestion of a discrepancy is an insult, says the former soldier, who served in India’s brief 1999 war with neighbor and arch-rival Pakistan.—
Esha Mitra,
CNN Money,
1 May 2026
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“Contradictoriness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contradictoriness. Accessed 8 May. 2026.
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