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Electricity pylons were hit in the fighting, disabling the water pumps that relied on the electrical grid.—
Emmet Livingstone,
The Dial,
20 Mar. 2025 -
Ensure Play Protect is enabled and don’t be lured into disabling it to enable an app to install.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes,
19 Mar. 2025
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States should get serious about forbidding, rather than replacing, structures in seriously flood-prone locales like some barrier islands in Florida or the banks of North Carolina’s French Broad River.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
1 Apr. 2025
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Numerous other states have approved legislation forbidding PFAS in certain product categories, rather than instituting bans across the board.—
Sharon Udasin,
The Hill,
27 Mar. 2025
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“Disempowering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disempowering. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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