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If that’s true, the entire psychological burden of the piece has been distilled into that one strained digit.—
Zachary Fine,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026 -
These parasites reveal what sanitation, disease burden, and population health were really like in this region of the Roman Empire, known for its ingenuity and innovation, but sometimes, public health might not be up to par.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Apr. 2026
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For out-of-state students like GSU sophomore Solei Green, the 3% increase adds to an already heavy financial load.—
La'Tasha Givens,
CBS News,
16 Apr. 2026
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As trucks roared up the landfill and dumped fresh loads of trash, adults and children alike rushed forward, gathering beneath cascading avalanches of waste to grab anything of value.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
15 Apr. 2026
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Plane outlets are often slow, loose, or even nonexistent, and when delays stack up, a dead phone becomes a real problem—not just an inconvenience.—
Samantha Leal,
Travel + Leisure,
18 Apr. 2026
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The lanes are shut down on the Palmetto between 58th and 36th streeets, causing major delays and backups.—
Milena Malaver,
Miami Herald,
17 Apr. 2026
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McMahon had a career’s worth of lessons in the virtues of bombast, and also in the dangers of it.—
Zach Helfand,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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Although the moody, groovy songs on her 1999 debut, No Angel, seemed to hint at danger or allude to Dido’s former life as a teenage wild child, Life for Rent was all middle-class Islington status quo.—
Shaad D’Souza,
Pitchfork,
19 Apr. 2026
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This dispute culminated in the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s designation, by outraged tweet, of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk—a standing peril to national security.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
15 Apr. 2026
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The perils of relying on probability In the United States, flood risk is publicly defined by maps produced by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.—
Dominic Boyer,
The Conversation,
14 Apr. 2026
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The funds will be used to make Americans with Disabilities Act improvements on roads and walkways, such as tactile paving surfaces designed to alert the visually impaired about hazards such as road crossings and drop-offs.—
Anna Ortiz,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Apr. 2026
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None of the approvals made this week includes hazard mitigation funding, a once-typical add on to disaster declaration support that helped communities build back with more resilience.—
Gabriela Aoun Angueira,
Fortune,
11 Apr. 2026
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“Cumber.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cumber. Accessed 20 Apr. 2026.
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