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geared up

verb

past tense of gear up

as in mounted

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Meanwhile, airborne early-warning aircraft often use large radar arrays mounted above the fuselage to provide surveillance over a broad area.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
Concerns mounted in July, when OpenAI disclosed that two of its models escaped containment, accessed the open internet and breached a company called Hugging Face.

— Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026

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He was educated at Middlebury College, and lived in New York City for 15 years, before settling back on the farm with his wife, Olga, and their children, Fiona and Abraham.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026
Of that cohort, CSET found that 70 percent were foreign-born or foreign- educated.

— Benjamin Guggenheim, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2026

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Researchers gathered data on students’ mental well-being before and after the intervention in March.

— Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
In Paris, hundreds of protesters gathered again on Sunday at the Place de la République amid a heavy police presence.

— SYLVIE CORBET, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026

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Japan considers China's rapidly growing military activities in and around Japan, including in the Pacific Ocean, as a threat and has fortified its southwestern region with longer-range missiles and interceptors in recent years.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2026
The group also fortified their compound and trained with guns in case the FBI or other law enforcement visited the property, according to the decision.

— Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 8 Oct. 2026

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The Louvre, Musée d'Orsay, Picasso Museum and Grand Palais were all shuttered Saturday as French officials prepared for another weekend of potentially violent demonstrations, according to The Associated Press (AP).

— Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2026
The university has not responded to CNN’s questions about why the full transcript of Jane Doe’s police interview, which included Doe’s explicit rape accusation, was not included in the statement prepared by police for the DA.

— Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026

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Turns out that whoever at their urban university up north briefed them on their task had also schooled them in how to interact with rural Ozark folk.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026
An expatriate resident of Riyadh told CNN their children were being schooled at home this week.

— Tim Lister, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2026

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