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Noun
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While there is a respectable moral case to be made for some form of reparations, Tubbs appears to be excessively fixated on policy ideas that would bankrupt our state if actually implemented.—
Rafael Perez,
Oc Register,
23 Apr. 2026 -
Ukraine will only need to repay the loan if a future peace deal includes Russia paying reparations.—
The Week UK,
TheWeek,
23 Apr. 2026
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Sleuthing crypto transactions linked to Biden pardons To piece together the suspicious trades related to Biden's pardons, Bubblemaps' forensic investigators looked at Polymarket trades using pattern-matching artificial intelligence software.—
Bobby Allyn,
NPR,
16 Apr. 2026
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His late father, Lee Kun-hee, was convicted of bribery twice, but never went to jail, also thanks to presidential pardons.—
Natasha O'Neill,
Vanity Fair,
16 Apr. 2026
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Working for his hometown has its satisfactions After living all over the world for 25 years in the foreign service, Marc Shaw, 51, was ready to come home to Kansas City, Missouri.—
Sarah D. Wire,
USA Today,
10 Feb. 2026
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Niazi doesn’t discuss the frustrations or satisfactions of this process.—
Lily Meyer,
The Atlantic,
29 Jan. 2026
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Maykol, a 25-year-old Havana resident who asked me to use just his first name to avoid regime reprisals, told me that lengthy power outages, already frequent before January, now occur daily.—
Gisela Salim-Peyer,
The Atlantic,
23 Apr. 2026
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Those two films are commonly described as meditations on the futility of violence in a world where justice takes the form of endless attacks and reprisals.—
Kelefa Sanneh,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
Noun
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By simultaneously hitting three or more targets, these agents promise not only deeper responses but potentially longer remissions in some of the hardest-to-treat cancers.—
William A. Haseltine,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The reps and warranties and indemnities clauses will define their obligations.—
Bruce Werner,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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“Expiations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expiations. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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