The name Chelydra serpentina evokes colossal reptiles stomping through ancient forests.
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Hannah Smith
July 1,
Idaho Statesman,
1 July 2026
That feeling solidified during their solo date, which included stomping grapes, exploring a winery and making a promise to open a special bottle of wine together one year later.
In its first-ever World Cup appearance, the team — hailing from an archipelago off the western coast of Africa with around 530,000 inhabitants — has left its fans giddy with success and its opponents, from the traditional powers of Spain and Uruguay, trudging off the field in shock.
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Harmeet Kaur,
CNN Money,
24 June 2026
But recently, for Giants fans and rising star Bryce Eldridge, the sight of Lee trudging back to the dugout unsuccessful has been a bit of an uncommon sight.
In this week's edition of Far-Flung Postcards, NPR's Vincent Ni takes readers to central London's Waterloo Place, where a life-size Banksy installation depicts a suited man marching over a precipice while hoisting a flag.
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Brittney Melton,
NPR,
1 July 2026
Demonstrators express frustration Protesters marching through Johannesburg’s city center Tuesday included young men carrying traditional fighting sticks and women of all ages.
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Michelle Gumede,
Los Angeles Times,
30 June 2026
Even the special effects emerge as less than spectacular — especially since Jeannot Szwarc’s plodding direction affords ample time for one to sit there and figure out just how they were accomplished.
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Arthur Knight,
HollywoodReporter,
25 June 2026
But plodding through them offers little pleasure, guilty or otherwise.
Initially, both teams looked to be treading carefully, wary of a misstep now in the knockout stage.
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Hannah Keyser,
CNN Money,
30 June 2026
By treading lightly with finishes, opening up the loft area to more light, and getting clever with storage, Marie channeled the unit’s coastal locale, conjuring up an aesthetic lexicon that suggests the interior of a boat with its clean, functional lines.
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Vaishnavi Nayel Talawadekar,
Architectural Digest,
23 June 2026
At around the same time down in London, England’s vice-captain Harry Brook was striding to the crease to join Root at 40-3.
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Hector Vickers,
New York Times,
21 June 2026
Before Kaia Gerber and Olivia Rodrigo became inseparable from their Repetto ballet pumps, Gainsbourg was striding around in the brand’s lace-up Zizi style–now the shoe of choice for art school girls (and a certain Marc Jacobs).
For more than a century, no visit to New York at Christmas felt complete without stepping inside FAO Schwarz.
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Mark Faithfull,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2026
With the majority of his players stepping onto a college campus for the first time, Turgeon knows the identity of this year’s team is still taking shape.
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Christian Marshall,
Kansas City Star,
29 June 2026
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