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But Ballotpedia, an online encyclopedia of elections, included both Kansas and Missouri among the eight states most likely to flip.

— Jack Harvel July 8, Kansas City Star, 8 July 2026
ChatGPT pulls between a quarter and nearly half of its top-10 citation share from a single encyclopedia.

— Ronn Torossian, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026

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Let Maggie Gyllenhaal adapt The Bell Jar • Why Soledad Acosta de Samper’s Dolores is a unicorn to translators • Ed Simon explores Noah Webster’s dictionary • Can American presidents declare war?

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 July 2026
Christmas hams, party cocktails, elegant layer cakes, and cookout classics fill the dictionaries of Southern family recipes, but one of my favorites is a simple vinaigrette from my grandmother.

— Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 2 July 2026

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Since leaving the band the War on Drugs, in 2008, Vile has become a solo avatar for psychedelic guitar music, his rich catalogue easygoing and nonchalant, but also sprawling.

— Hilton Als, New Yorker, 17 July 2026
The acquisition also brings the entire publishing catalog of genre-defining bluesman John Lee Hooker fully under BMG for the first time, following a deal in 2022 when BMG co-acquired the rights, with Fuji Music Group, from Hooker’s estate.

— Jem Aswad, Variety, 17 July 2026

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After getting wind of an unusual novel, from 1912, Ignacio tries to find it, while Ena makes the elusive tome the basis of her own docu-fictional novel.

— Hilton Als, New Yorker, 17 July 2026
Thomson is best known for a giant tome that was first published in 1975 under the title A Biographical Dictionary of the Cinema, and that was updated and reissued five times since, most recently in 2014, as The New Biographical Dictionary of Film.

— Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 7 July 2026

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