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Noun
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Scouts spend hundreds of days on the road each year—long drives, cheap hotels, fast food.—
Dan Greene,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026 -
Cairo has leveraged the Suez Canal’s strategic location to host many subsea cables linking Europe and Asia, generating hundreds of millions of dollars annually in transit and licensing fees.—
Mostafa Salem,
CNN Money,
17 May 2026
Noun
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According to the Cleveland Clinic, a stem cell transplant can treat — and sometimes cure — certain blood disorders, cancers and autoimmune diseases by replacing unhealthy stem cells with healthy ones, either from the patient's own bone marrow or donated stem cells from another person.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
PEOPLE,
23 May 2026
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Authorities often dispensed empty promises that projects would be replaced with better structures, ones less vulnerable to crime, damp and black mold, and not flawed by the kind of dangerous cost-cutting construction that led to London’s Grenfell Tower burning down in 2017, killing 72 people.—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
22 May 2026
Noun
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Now the image team at the space agency is still sorting through and processing the tens of thousands of images captured during the mission.—
Andrea Gawrylewski,
Scientific American,
22 May 2026
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The military operation involved tens of thousands of troops along with advanced missile systems, combat aircraft, naval vessels, and submarines capable of carrying nuclear weapons.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
22 May 2026
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LaPour was the preseason Big 12 Pitcher of the Year and got his season off to a strong start against Vanderbilt, giving up two runs off fives hits in five innings of work with five strikeouts.—
Lawrence Dow,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Feb. 2026
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“Fifties.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fifties. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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