And physically, there is no other venue like it, sitting in the grass, surrounded by trees, in a natural amphitheater that can host outdoor concerts for nearly eight months of the year.
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Jim Harrington,
Mercury News,
29 May 2026
In Scotland, we’re surrounded by it all the time.
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Television Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
29 May 2026
Her daughter, Soraya, had taken refuge there with her three children, Christina, Charbel, and Elias, after fleeing Debl, a Christian border village now encircled by Israeli troops.
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Euan Ward,
New Yorker,
29 May 2026
The feeder includes four feeding ports and is encircled by a perch if your backyard birds are in need of rest between sips.
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Brittany VanDerBill,
Better Homes & Gardens,
28 May 2026
The map originally shown to ticket buyers suggested that Category 1 encompassed the stadium’s entire 100 level and 200-level sections along the sideline.
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Henry Bushnell,
New York Times,
27 May 2026
Bloomberg Businessweek reported Lindberg has at least 12 children, including six or more through a network of egg donors and surrogates that encompassed at least 25 women.
And even in Moscow, which open-source intelligence analysts say has been ringed by more than 100 air defense systems amid Ukraine's expanding strike campaign, the threat from Kyiv appears to be more present than ever before.
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David Brennan,
ABC News,
4 June 2026
Visitors enter through 2nd-century Hadrian’s Arch and find the Temple of Zeus, the Hippodrome, the Temple of Artemis and a forum ringed by 56 Corinthian columns.
The airline also restricted the conditions under which refunds would be provided, prompting pushback from some plus-size travelers who argued the changes would make their trips more complicated.
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Nathan Diller,
USA Today,
29 May 2026
This restriction travels with the pick rather than with the team, so a future pick that now belongs to another team could still be restricted on lottery night.
One internal Army assessment in April found that the financial pain could leave units slated to deploy to Europe next year with what the assessment framed as an insufficient amount of training.
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Steven Beynon,
ABC News,
3 June 2026
The outgoing governor, who is term-limited and widely expected to run for president in 2028, had framed the fight as one for the very soul of democracy.
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Barnini Chakraborty,
The Washington Examiner,
3 June 2026
Representatives from hostile states like Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea are circumscribed in their movements, typically limited to a small radius around their official posts—an embassy, a consulate, a permanent mission to the UN.
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Adam Ciralsky,
Vanity Fair,
19 Mar. 2026
Eventually, the area in the Pentagon where reporters were allowed was circumscribed to a single corridor outside the press room – even though the public affairs officers who worked most closely with reporters were in an office on the other side of the 6½-million-square-foot building.
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