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Noun
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People can expect to receive 5 cents for containers less than 24 ounces and 10 cents for containers 24 ounces or larger.—
Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado
April 22,
Sacbee.com,
22 Apr. 2026 -
This is why a bowl of rigatoni can look more generous than the same weight of angel hair—even if both started out as two dry ounces.—
Katie Rosenhouse,
Southern Living,
22 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Archaeobotanists find various parts of plants, including seeds, chaff, fruit pits, nutshells and cobs.—
Alexandria Mitchem Hansen,
The Conversation,
19 Dec. 2025
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And these nutshells that are now all restored have been used for that purpose for more than eight decades.—
Katie Hafner,
Scientific American,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Quantum computers calculate in fractions of a second what would have taken classical supercomputers septillions of years, enabling us to create personalized pharmaceuticals and materials with extraordinary properties.—
David Awschalom,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Apr. 2026
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This decision took fractions of a second and was not influenced by logic or reason.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
15 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Its design, crafted by Russell Sage Studio, is meant to be an on-the-nose reflection of the distillery's famed product, with bronzy walls the color of its single malt, and a ceiling painted to look like barley, reflecting the morning dew with flecks of gold throughout.—
Alessandra Amodio,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Apr. 2026
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Berber carpet Berber is a type of loop pile carpet with flecks of color.—
Faith Wakefield,
USA Today,
12 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Instead of measuring a bulk signal, ATTA works by targeting atoms individually.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Apr. 2026
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This X-ray glow is radiated when the heavy ions of the solar wind, like carbon and oxygen, grab an electron from neutral atoms in either our outer atmosphere or the heliosphere.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
24 Apr. 2026
Noun
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And like any good femme fatale, Maddy is given savvy at the expense of moral scruples.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
20 Apr. 2026
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But the squirrelly, middle-aged guy at the weird surplus store in northern Florida had no such scruples.—
Alex Morris,
Rolling Stone,
19 Mar. 2026
Noun
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My hopes and dreams are just to go into it and tear it to shreds.—
Denise Petski,
Deadline,
26 Apr. 2026
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The proteinmaxxers leapt on the buffet, heaping spoonfuls of hummus and shreds of rotisserie chicken onto paper plates.—
Sam Stone,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
9 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Control black spot & mites affecting rose plantings.—
Tom MacCubbin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
25 Apr. 2026
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To help prevent infestations, avoid using broad-spectrum insecticides that kill beneficial insects along with the mites.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
22 Apr. 2026
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“Halfpence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halfpence. Accessed 3 May. 2026.
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