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What shows up in the first 10 results may make your stomach drop.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
16 May 2026 -
Her own theory of where the volume actually shows up sounds blunt for a wallet CEO.—
Boaz Sobrado,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2026
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Bum-seok seems done for until Sung-ae turns up with a cop car full of military-grade weapons to slow the thing down.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
17 May 2026
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But both are good at solving crimes, and here in season 2, Eddie is reluctantly stuck in her hometown when an arm turns up in the mouth of a dead alligator, and many more body parts arrive over time.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2026
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The move comes amid fragile ceasefire violations, escalating rhetoric and shifting deadlines, with Washington and Tehran trading fire last week while talks stall over Iran’s nuclear program and regional security.—
Michelle L. Price,
Los Angeles Times,
19 May 2026
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Kami Rita's record-breaking climb comes 32 years after his first climb in 1994.—
Charna Flam,
PEOPLE,
19 May 2026
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But Ohtani entered Wednesday with four doubles and 10 hits total in five games against the Angels and Padres.—
Maddie Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
21 May 2026
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After the Sabres were eliminated in the second round of the NHL playoffs with an overtime loss to the Montreal Canadiens on Monday, Tuch and the Sabres have until July 1 to agree on a new contract before the 30-year-old winger hits the open market.—
Matthew Fairburn,
New York Times,
21 May 2026
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And if New York reaches the NBA Finals, the challenge could become either the Oklahoma City Thunder frontcourt of Isaiah Hartenstein and Chet Holmgren, or Victor Wembanyama in an NBA Cup Final rematch.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
16 May 2026
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Even the artists whose work all this machinery is supposedly serving no longer have a reliable way to know what real audiences actually want, since whatever feedback reaches them may already have passed through the same apparatus built to distort that feedback in the first place.—
Lane Brown,
Vulture,
15 May 2026
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The waitress arrives with our order.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 May 2026
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The fact that the highlight of Henri’s wartime experience seems to be the moment Petain arrives in Limoges for a parade, only to shun him during a meet-and-greet afterwards, reveals to what extent all his efforts were in vain.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
20 May 2026
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“Creeps up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/creeps%20up. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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