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The officer said there have been an undetermined number of desertions among Cuban personnel, with some seeking to remain in Venezuela rather than return to the island.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
24 Feb. 2026 -
Wide-scale desertions and 2 million draft dodgers are among a raft of challenges for Ukraine, Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said last month.—
Illia Novikov,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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Ferrante’s portrait of these schisms is exquisite, detailing all the jealousies and insecurities that can thrive in a friendship between two bright ambitious women.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Mar. 2026
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There are still some trustbusters in the administration, especially at the FTC, which has avoided being pulled into messy lobbyist fights and White House schisms.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
14 Feb. 2026
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Their infidelities have left the people of 2119 trapped between loving the expansive then and the depreciated now.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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Meanwhile, Lian and Wenyu wrestle with their own infidelities.—
Michael Schaub,
Oc Register,
22 Sep. 2025
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Additionally, part of my role is to address misconceptions people hear about on social media by sharing data on potential side effects and explaining what someone can expect when starting a new birth control.—
Karen Greiner,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Mar. 2026
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These differences may reflect prescriber preferences, inequities in health care or misconceptions among both patients and clinicians about safe dosing.—
Rachel French,
The Conversation,
10 Mar. 2026
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Large deviations from this benchmark — either too much or too little sleep — were associated with worse insulin sensitivity.—
Angelica Stabile,
FOXNews.com,
17 Mar. 2026
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The DigiMEP platform’s reporting architecture extends from individual service visits to enterprise-level dashboards, where equipment health, service verification, and performance deviations can be analyzed in aggregate.—
Daniel Fusch,
USA Today,
27 Feb. 2026
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Alas, economics is littered with fallacies.—
Steve H. Hanke,
Fortune,
24 Feb. 2026
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While a painter envies the novelist’s ability to inhabit consciousness, or a filmmaker envies the freedom from production costs, artists must be warned that writing carries its own myths and seductive fallacies.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Dec. 2025
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The problem with quantum phase estimation The second algorithm analyzed, QPE, is designed for future fault-tolerant quantum computers that can correct their own errors.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Mar. 2026
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On March 6, NIPSCO uploaded three direct testimonies in the case with employees that explained the errors.—
Maya Wilkins,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Mar. 2026
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“Defections.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/defections. Accessed 22 Mar. 2026.
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