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Thankfully, a shelter volunteer, Nikki Miller, took up Chase’s cause, giving him a bath, trimming his nails and shaving his fur to get him back to looking his best again.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Sep. 2025 -
Its trimming rippled in the afternoon wind.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Sep. 2025
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Either technology can show an assortment of issues like banding and dithering patterns in fills, which vary from printer to printer and can even vary from one quality setting to another with the same printer.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
30 Sep. 2025
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After a decade of dithering by state leaders, voters forced change last November with their landslide approval of Proposition 36, which reversed parts of Proposition 47 and made some theft and drug crimes felonies once more.—
U T Editorial Board,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Sep. 2025
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Pressure short of war Nonetheless, expectations of a military clash are edging upward.—
Robert Muggah,
The Conversation,
2 Oct. 2025
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The Senate on Tuesday, as expected, failed to approve a GOP stopgap to keep the government funded or a Democratic alternative, edging the government closer to a midnight shutdown.—
Alexander Bolton,
The Hill,
30 Sep. 2025
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Everton’s Hill Dickinson Stadium had been waiting for a moment like this.—
Patrick Boyland,
New York Times,
6 Oct. 2025
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Others on Third Avenue are still waiting for housing.—
Ashley Hiruko,
ProPublica,
6 Oct. 2025
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The vote had outsize importance because of Moldova’s strategic location bordering Ukraine and NATO-member Romania, along with a long-running domestic conflict that has seen a breakaway region align with Moscow.—
Prashant Rao,
semafor.com,
29 Sep. 2025
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The Accreditation Commission for Midwifery Education has previously accredited 48 programs in the United States, with six located in bordering states.—
Nathan Ansell,
Arkansas Online,
25 Sep. 2025
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Even all-world corner Pat Surtain II didn’t have his best day, with Colts quarterback Daniel Jones not hesitating to go after him on routes over the middle.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
15 Sep. 2025
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As adults, this pattern can look like hesitating to ask for help, avoiding vulnerability or keeping emotional struggles private, even from those closest to you.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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As the sun has grown subtly brighter over this span, if this supercontinent struggled with high carbon dioxide levels like its Pangaean forebear did, then this would be an inimically hot world to animals, except for lone refuges fringing its polar far reaches.—
Peter Brannen,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
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The islands that became the Outer Banks fringing the North Carolina coast first appeared 15,000 years ago, when sea levels dropped and the nation’s shoreline migrated inward from the continental shelf, Young said.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
21 Aug. 2025
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The homes in the Flying Saucer park run the gamut, from RVs with no or minimal additions to ones with skirting around the bottom, outside decks and gardens.—
Judith Kohler,
Denver Post,
26 Sep. 2025
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Anderson’s portrait of a galvanized world is just as chaotic and ugly as our own, but his humanist approach both deepens the narrative and lets the movie’s cast get away with skirting real-life political comparisons.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Hemming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hemming. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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