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In the short film, Pitt walks into his picturesque kitchen and heads for the coffeemaker on his counter.—
Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
8 Sep. 2025 -
Local hotels offer features like roll-in showers, lower counters, and braille signage to accommodate guests with various disabilities.—
Eve Chen,
USA Today,
8 Sep. 2025
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These actions are a body blow to what remains of the postwar global trading rules.—
Wally Adeyemo,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Aug. 2025
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Potential price spikes would deliver a body blow to California motorists, who already pay the highest average price per gallon of gasoline in the country.—
Rob Nikolewski,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 July 2025
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Rodgers took four sacks and three other hits, including multiple heavy blows.—
Mike Sando,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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Councilman Edwin Peacock called the incident a blow to public trust and urged both Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) and police to reassess security measures.—
Amanda Castro
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Sep. 2025
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His work helps establish when the damage would have occurred, which insurers were on the hook, and the extent of cleanup that would be required.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
8 Sep. 2025
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His customers had not let him off the hook.—
Hannah Goldfield,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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The band’s foundation was built on the joint songwriting of Davies and Hodgson, who sang lead on most of Supertramp’s hits, but their partnership was beginning to dissolve by the early 1980s.—
David Chiu,
PEOPLE,
8 Sep. 2025
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Jalen Ramsey’s big hit on fourth down, separating the ball from Jets star receiver Garrett Wilson to seal the game.—
Mike DeFabo,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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Amid the album's release, Justin shared several clips and photos on Instagram of billboards and projections in various locations around the world featuring a photo with his 1-year-old son Jack Blues, and himself and his wife, 28, with the little one.—
Ilana Kaplan,
PEOPLE,
5 Sep. 2025
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The ad includes clips from news broadcasts covering, for example, Trump’s framework for a trade deal with the European Union.—
Naomi Lim,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
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As Thursday night rolled into Friday morning, Anisimova’s strokes had the same frozen-rope surety that had gotten her past Świątek in the quarterfinal.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
5 Sep. 2025
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Apply a base layer of detangling spray to the area, and use a wide-tooth comb or detangling brush to gently work at the mat, starting at the outer edges (closest to your ends, not your roots) and using small strokes.—
Grace McCarty,
Glamour,
5 Sep. 2025
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Pair some dark brown boots with tall black socks and a chunky belt (or two) to accentuate the color contrast.—
Abby Morgan Lebet,
Glamour,
5 Sep. 2025
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From fighter to far-right figurehead McGregor, one of the UFC’s most famous stars, became the first fighter to hold two of the championship’s belts simultaneously in November 2016 and holds a 22-6 career record.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Counterblow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counterblow. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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