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Depictions of the suburbs have long been a mirror for the nation’s discontents.—
Charles Bethea,
New Yorker,
2 Apr. 2026 -
But the recent aggressive suppression of digital freedoms including a major internet blackout and the throttling of a popular messaging app has led to rare calls for public display of discontent.—
Elizabeth Robinson,
NBC news,
2 Apr. 2026
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The list of March's weather woes was long in 2026.—
Alan Gionet,
CBS News,
4 Apr. 2026
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Cora posited pregame that swinging less might improve his team’s offensive woes, but his players struggled to put that theory into action in the early innings.—
Gabrielle Starr,
Boston Herald,
3 Apr. 2026
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As discovered during the Apollo program when astronauts tried to eat sandwiches in space, crumbs from bread can fly around in the absence of gravity and end up in astronauts’ eyes or lungs and get stuck inside equipment, causing damage.—
Jacopo Prisco,
CNN Money,
7 Apr. 2026
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Imagine these gravity wells as topographic maps of sorts, where Earth and the moon are two gravitational holes rotating around each other, surrounded by curving hills.—
Dan Vergano,
Scientific American,
7 Apr. 2026
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Later in the day, a live video feed from a camera mounted on one of Orion's solar wings showed the moon dead ahead, a tiny gray marble suspended in blackness.—
William Harwood,
CBS News,
3 Apr. 2026
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The film's opening two minutes play out in complete blackness, a picture-less overture showcasing legendary James Bond composer John Barry's majestic score.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
8 Feb. 2026
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American Vandal is a true-crime parody that sees two teenagers investigate juvenile offenses like graffiti with all the seriousness of Making a Murderer.—
Andrew Walsh,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 Apr. 2026
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As the 7 o’clock hour dwindles, so does the seriousness of the news, generally.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Apr. 2026
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This isn’t a role that requires dealing with chaos or moodiness — Russell Westbrook is no longer on the team, remember?—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
25 Mar. 2026
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The movements feel rotoscoped and deliberate, and adds to the game’s moodiness.—
Gieson Cacho,
Mercury News,
16 Mar. 2026
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