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In this world, inflation isn’t a bug, but a feature of how the Fed chooses to balance the crisis.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
5 Jan. 2026 -
Directors chooses three candidates from their district to create the 21-member cohort, who will learn about the local water system and the agency’s projects through webinars and tours of water infrastructure.—
Anne Gelhaus,
Mercury News,
4 Jan. 2026
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His firm often selects stone floors for beach houses or lake houses, where water, sand and dirt are likely to be tracked through the space.—
Mary Grace Granados
Special Contributor,
Dallas Morning News,
5 Jan. 2026
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In an attempt to remedy that, the TIME photo department every year selects the ten images that made us, first, pause…then dig a little deeper into what went into bringing that image to your eyes.—
TIME Photo Department,
Time,
23 Dec. 2025
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“Decides (on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decides%20%28on%29. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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