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The orientation meeting Monday was a precursor to the launch of The Faithful Accompaniment in Trust and Hope, or FAITH, a pilot program that will have religious leaders and volunteers present at San Diego’s immigration court to offer spiritual support, comfort and prayer to those who need it.—
Alexandra Mendoza,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
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The Florida court contrived a weird and arbitrary compromise, granting new sentencing hearings only to death row prisoners whose sentences were considered final after 2002, when the U.S. court issued a decision that was a precursor to Hurst’s.—
Orlando Sentinel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
29 July 2025
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Jarry is often cited as a forerunner to the Dada, surrealist and futurist movements in the early 20th century and later, the theater of the absurd.—
Scott Lafee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 July 2025
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Gilligan, who also created Saul’s forerunner Breaking Bad, will serve as writer and showrunner.—
Dave Nemetz,
TVLine,
25 July 2025
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For Adcock, the shows are both a promise fulfilled and a hopeful harbinger of what is to come.—
Jessica Nicholson,
Billboard,
30 July 2025
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Meanwhile, some on the right are celebrating the campaign for allegedly doing just that, calling the spots yet another harbinger of the death of woke.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
29 July 2025
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Kent being put in the stocks was just a foretaste, which Lear himself understood.—
Nan Z. Da
June 10,
Literary Hub,
10 June 2025
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The Art Institute offered a foretaste of the collection through two exhibitions — one focused on Neoclassical paintings, the other on French Revolution-era drawings — in the fall.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Feb. 2025
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Researchers are even starting to get more forewarnings about volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.—
Umair Irfan,
Vox,
4 July 2025
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With PulteGroup leading off this earnings report season, their negative comments could be a forewarning of more reality adjustments ahead.—
John S. Tobey,
Forbes,
26 Oct. 2024
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Varsity jackets bear the Maroon Tiger of Morehouse and the jaguar of Spelman, not as mascots, but as heralds of intellectual fortitude.—
Shelby Stewart,
Essence,
23 July 2025
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Julia Garner portrays the villainous herald the Silver Surfer, and Ralph Ineson is the world-eating giant Galactus.—
Mark Hughes,
Forbes.com,
26 July 2025
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Its current structure was commissioned by Bishop Oliver King, who—according to legend—dreamt of angels climbing golden ladders to heaven: now immortalized on the Abbey’s West Front.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
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Blessed Virgin of Pompeii was built in 1904; it was known for the pink bricks it was built from and the statue of an angel that stood watch atop its steeple.—
Chris Foran,
jsonline.com,
31 July 2025
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One of the motorcycle outriders tackled the two protestors to the ground as the leading group of the men’s race ran past unobstructed.—
Issy Ronald,
CNN Money,
27 Apr. 2025
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Through the front doors — which boast double leather horse collars — the entryway features an equine sculpture placed on a piece that Churchill Downs outrider Lee Lockwood once had atop his horse.—
Lennie Omalza,
The Courier-Journal,
1 May 2024
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