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This 11-night voyage from Vancouver stops in Hilo and Kailua Kona on the Big Island and sails along Kauai's rugged Napali Coast before disembarking in Honolulu.—
Lauren Dana Ellman,
Travel + Leisure,
29 Jan. 2026 -
In a particularly brazen flouting of traffic laws, one Waymo allegedly drove near the students who were disembarking from the bus.—
Frank Landymore,
Futurism,
29 Jan. 2026
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The colors are richly saturated, and when something catches Ryan’s eye—say, a bee alighting on a wildflower—the images shimmer with an almost radioactive intensity.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
24 Oct. 2025
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Say each word was a bird—alighting briefly, out of reach and then gone again.—
Leila Chatti
September 5,
Literary Hub,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Deplaning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deplaning. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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