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Power Ballad should be breezy and fun, with that twist of mournfulness that Carney is always so adept at pulling off.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
29 May 2026
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The ultimate outcome, then, was that, by the end of the seventies, Margaret Thatcher had been able to bring the various discontents mixed up in that into a kind of big-tent project within a mainstream center-right party.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
12 June 2026
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As discontent with the government grows, more Cubans aspire to regime change rather than reform.—
Nora Gámez Torres,
Miami Herald,
12 June 2026
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The Sox are 24-12 at home, in contrast to their recent road woes.—
Meghan Montemurro,
Chicago Tribune,
19 June 2026
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And if the team can’t fix its bullpen woes sooner or later, some members might be designated for assignment.—
Peter Chawaga,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
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The company that’s accustomed to defying gravity is now defying market physics.—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
16 June 2026
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The fact that much of the region excluded by the team hasn't been explored experimentally lays the groundwork for making precise measurements of gravity to test quantum gravity.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
15 June 2026
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From individual missions to tours aboard the ISS, video games have featured surprisingly often in the inky blackness of space.—
William Worrall,
Space.com,
30 May 2026
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Lighting the mood Production design includes dramatic lighting effects, intensely bright (oof, that spotlight) to sudden pitch-blackness.—
Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
22 May 2026
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But Torres said those facts did not outweigh the seriousness of the allegations.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
15 June 2026
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In Susan Sontag’s classic formulation, camp is failed seriousness, while the tragicomic is a seriousness of failure.—
Eugenie Brinkema,
ARTnews.com,
14 June 2026
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There’s a fine line between creating moodiness and making a space feel suffocating.—
Ashlyn Needham,
The Spruce,
4 June 2026
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The hormone pills can cause serious side effects, particularly fatigue and moodiness.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
31 May 2026
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