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Recent Examples of finsOur fish farm worked beautifully right up until the NewCoral molted, growing fins and fangs and one rocky fin, terrorizing the coastline and hunting the NewFish almost to NewExtinction.—Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025 The sharks are another story — their flesh is not well regarded and is often given away, while its fins are considered poor quality for the global shark fin trade.—Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Even though the planets are in reality still tens of millions – or even billions – of miles apart, the events present a special opportunity for astronomers and casual stargazers to see multiple worlds in our solar system at one time.
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Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
15 May 2026
California faced tens of billions of dollars in budget deficits several years in a row, forcing painful cuts last year such as a rollback on a promise to provide free healthcare to low-income immigrants without legal status.
Scouts spend hundreds of days on the road each year—long drives, cheap hotels, fast food.
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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.
Beijing also seeks access to top-end chips made by American manufacturers.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2026
Another task involved answering elementary school questions with a giant pencil, and the final showdown was over a Plinko-esque game with specialized chips.
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Patrick Connolly,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 May 2026
Yale’s Budget Lab reports that the tariffs have raised about two hundred and fifteen billion dollars in revenues.
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John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
Hundreds of millions of dollars for securing the White House ballroom cannot be included in a Republican spending bill as currently written, the Senate parliamentarian ruled Saturday.
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.
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Lawrence Dow,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Feb. 2026