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cooperatives

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plural of cooperative

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Recent Examples of cooperatives The old joke is that some cooperatives are the least cooperative groups in the world. — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 11 Aug. 2025

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Funding challenges have forced the closure of re-entry homes like the one at Charlotte’s McLeod Center and the shuttering of re-entry organizations like Redirection-NC as well as local reentry councils across the state.

— Amber Gaudet July 18, Charlotte Observer, 18 July 2026
Gartner reported in 2026 that organizations with successful AI initiatives invest up to four times more in data quality, governance, AI-ready people and change management than organizations reporting poor outcomes.

— Robert Kramer, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026

Definition of organizations

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Along with attending matches, Infantino’s itinerary included stops in New York for an interview on Fox & Friends and in Miami for a FIFA summit attended by representatives from the organization’s 211 member associations.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 July 2026
The associations remained even after accounting for individual characteristics, suggesting community-level conditions may independently shape Alzheimer’s risk.

— Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 18 July 2026

Definition of associations

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Some real-estate experts contend, however, that institutions shelling out millions to underwrite a property are already dead set on recouping their investments.

— Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 19 July 2026
The city also is constrained in taxing because about 1,500 properties — including state offices, hospitals and religious institutions — are exempt from paying local property taxes.

— Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 19 July 2026

Definition of institutions

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High school grades shape students’ overall GPA, class rank and the transcripts that colleges read.

— Laura Link, Washington Post, 21 July 2026
His bipartisan proposal would preserve student athletes’ ability to make endorsement money, limit transfers and eligibility, allow colleges to pool media rights, regulate agents, and prevent football coaches from leaving midseason.

— Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 20 July 2026

Definition of colleges

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Across the nation, some communities have had more blackouts after large data centers move in, and higher power bills as utilities have to build more infrastructure to support them.

— Alexandra Phelps, Miami Herald, 17 July 2026
The ensemble drama traces the unpredictable shape of grief and family dynamics, aiming for an emotionally candid portrait of loss and the ties that hold communities together.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 July 2026

Definition of communities

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Linguistic diversity is not a good acquired at no expense to the societies that have chosen it (or been forced to choose it) over homogeneity.

— Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
Storms smash into cities, disease shuts down whole societies, and millions of humans migrate across the globe.

— Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026

Definition of societies

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Partnerships That Last Stapp has seen enough cross-sector partnerships announced with fanfare and wound down within a year to have strong opinions about what separates the two outcomes.

— Keely Cat-Wells, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Still, the company’s leaders have increasingly leaned into partnerships with major tech platforms.

— Max Tani, semafor.com, 22 July 2026

Definition of partnerships

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