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as in retreating
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as in discarding
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Glaciers all over the world -- especially in Antarctica -- are also retreating at a rapid pace, recent research shows.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
9 Apr. 2026 -
The alarmed father then began retreating while shouting for their daughter to drive away.—
Bonny Chu,
FOXNews.com,
9 Apr. 2026
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Keita Design’s young woodworkers use sustainable practices to create unique pieces, keeping natural imperfections and warps instead of discarding them as waste.—
Lisa Boone,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Apr. 2026
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Rex Heuermann answered preliminary questions before admitting to killing eight women and discarding their bodies at Gilgo Beach over more than a decade.—
Alexa Herrera,
CBS News,
8 Apr. 2026
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First of all, one now programs the countdown function via the lower pusher on the side of the case, and the countdown minute- and seconds-hands now turn counterclockwise, which is a more intuitive configuration for tracking receding time.—
Allen Farmelo,
Robb Report,
14 Apr. 2026
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But the groundwater has been receding at an alarming rate, and some wells have to be dug as deep as 150 meters (nearly 500 feet) to reach it.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
13 Apr. 2026
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Kevin Thompson was physically and vocally imposing as the curse-flinging Bonze.—
Scott Cantrell,
Dallas Morning News,
11 Apr. 2026
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The Wolverines danced their way off the floor, Mara flinging a towel around his head.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
5 Apr. 2026
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Presumably, the prospect of raking in another nine figures should go a long way toward dispelling any fears of overloading the tryptophan-adjacent stretch of the NFL calendar.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
11 Mar. 2026
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This movie, based on a real-life 1940s women's professional baseball team, was ahead of its time in dispelling gender stereotypes.—
Karen Cicero,
Parents,
5 Mar. 2026
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That goal came moments after a penalty to Oliver Kapanen expired, a penalty that came as a result of Arber Xhekaj failing to gain the red line before dumping the puck in to get a change in, resulting in an icing.—
Arpon Basu,
New York Times,
12 Apr. 2026
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He was then seen flying over large crowds of protestors and dumping brown liquid on them in what appeared to be Times Square in New York City.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
11 Apr. 2026
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Kansas City is ditching a city code that long required new development to include a certain amount of parking space, which helped turn a significant portion of the city’s usable land into surface-level parking lots.—
Dylan Lysen,
Kansas City Star,
10 Apr. 2026
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The video comes just days after Hudson pulled off a subtle hair transformation, ditching her boho waves for something sleeker.—
Chanel Vargas,
InStyle,
9 Apr. 2026
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Looking toward the horizon, the American backyard is undergoing a radical transformation, shedding the high-maintenance, rigid aesthetics of the past in favor of something far more soulful and secluded.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
10 Apr. 2026
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Natasha Lyonne is shedding light on the circumstances that led to her being escorted off a recent flight to NYC and what happened after.—
Emlyn Travis,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 Apr. 2026
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“Distancing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distancing. Accessed 15 Apr. 2026.
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