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Expect an urge to clean up your energetic hygiene, face your inner saboteur, and explore spiritual practices that are both ancestral and futuristic.—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
29 Apr. 2025 -
Otherwise Israel could, in theory, only chip at Fordo’s periphery—by destroying power sources, collapsing entrances or sending saboteurs—while uranium continues to be enriched below.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
18 June 2025
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Later, since the apartment remained unlocked, probably some marauders apparently stole all their kitchen appliances, electronics and other valuable family belongings.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
12 July 2025
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The movies, by contrast, were still being made in Hollywood by marauders and lunatics.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
19 May 2025
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The biggest water waster, though, is cleaning during installation and use.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
13 Nov. 2014
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Who is a time waster and who is your next biggest client?—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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To determine the importance of genes in body size and caste organization, the researchers examined clonal raider ants.—
Jack Knudson,
Discover Magazine,
22 July 2025
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The 90-minute film follows three different warriors throughout history: A Viking raider and her son on a quest for revenge; two Japanese brothers—a ninja and a Samurai—who turn on one another in a war of succession; and a WWII pilot who investigates an extraterrestrial threat.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
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First responders needed a wrecker to move the car and get Jones out, Judd said.—
Olivia Lloyd,
Miami Herald,
13 May 2025
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Graham is that good, a game wrecker on the interior of the defensive line who offers a special blend of quickness, strength and intelligence.—
Sean Hammond,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Apr. 2025
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The warship, a Flight IIA Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, is equipped with 96 launchers—32 forward and 64 aft—to accommodate various types of missiles.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Aug. 2025
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Churchill received 50 outdated World War I destroyers, which, nonetheless, were invaluable for protecting the British Empire from German U-boats and keeping supply lines from America open.—
Ariel Cohen,
Forbes.com,
30 July 2025
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Learn all about the many groups, from Native Americans to Spanish pirates to English settlers to wealthy cotton planters to enslaved people, who have lived on the island and influenced its development at the Edisto Island Museum.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
6 Aug. 2025
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John Cleese shows up as a pirate and tries to make a call from a payphone on the ship, while his parrot, who is in love with him, gripes that Cleese is neglecting her and should take her to dinner with all his doubloons.—
Sophie Brickman,
The Atlantic,
4 Aug. 2025
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“Despoiler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/despoiler. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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