Drivers who failed to dig out while the snow from our late-January storm was still soft are now contending with thick walls of ice cocooning their vehicles.
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Clio Chang,
Curbed,
5 Feb. 2026
Josephson likes to turn down the volume on the outside world, cocooning her readers in the white noise of affirmation.
Research among American surgeons has shown that work-home conflict is strongly associated with burnout and emotional distress, suggesting that the conflict surrounding demanding schedules may be more consequential than the schedules themselves.
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Alexandra Kharazi,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2026
Progressive Democratic politicians have won major electoral victories across the country in recent months amid growing frustrations surrounding inequality, affordability and potential threats to job security posed by artificial intelligence.
That gallery feels like the perfect frame for Aitken’s work, at once spacious and enfolding, spare and receptive to all that visual and sonic plushness.
—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
29 July 2026
Some may find this a bit too fine-grained, overly implicated in language’s self-enfolding folds.
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