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as in stalking horses
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Despite the advances in AI, Duan concedes that early domestic CAE software lagged behind foreign competitors in several areas.—
Ni Tao,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Oct. 2025 -
Kahn is optimistic that Coach’s focus on a smaller number of affordable, yet consistent products puts it in a better place to manage cost and price increases than its competitors.—
Nicholas Gordon,
Fortune,
21 Oct. 2025
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And those are the kind of plays that are just character plays.—
Michael Nowels,
Mercury News,
20 Oct. 2025
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Keenan Allen is always around and simply continues to make plays.—
Ryan Finley,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Oct. 2025
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The family-friendly concert features patriotic music honoring veterans, as well as contemporary and classical selections, movie and theater musical favorites.—
Anne Gelhaus,
Mercury News,
19 Oct. 2025
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The Kansas City Chiefs are double-digit favorites, and most national experts expect Sunday’s game at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium to play out with a lopsided result.—
Scott Chasen,
Kansas City Star,
19 Oct. 2025
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Some even licked the candy to soften it -- a trick used by contestants in the show.—
Hakyung Kate Lee,
ABC News,
17 Oct. 2025
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With a hundred or so onlookers seated in chairs positioned in a semicircle in the library lobby, the contestants took turns busting rhymes.—
Jeff Pearlman,
Rolling Stone,
17 Oct. 2025
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New entrants will join historic Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens, Silvercup Studio and its expansion, Silvercup Studios East, in Long Island City, and Broadway Stages in Brooklyn.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
23 Oct. 2025
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In 2003, SHoP Architects was chosen from a field of 20 entrants in a competition hosted by FIT and funded by the National Endowment for the Arts with the aim of elevating the standards for public works nationwide.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
23 Oct. 2025
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One of the newest entries in this field comes from Moog, which has introduced its Lightweight Reconfigurable Integrated-weapons Platform (LW RIwP).—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Oct. 2025
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So many documentaries come off as little more than Wikipedia entries with benefits.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
19 Oct. 2025
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As electricity bills climb, candidates are turning their fire on data centers in a rare populist backlash that cuts across party lines.—
Sharon Goldman,
Fortune,
22 Oct. 2025
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However, one in five respondents were undecided, underscoring the space that both candidates have to grow their support beyond their party bases.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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Schott says that the partnering universities are required to screen their applicants and choose the top two or three.—
Margaret Buranen,
USA Today,
21 Oct. 2025
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But the appeals court mandate would mean first-time DACA applicants in Texas would not have the right to work, and existing DACA recipients who are working could lose their ability to do so.—
Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
21 Oct. 2025
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