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The Ohio Valley is expected to start the holiday weekend off with chilly temperatures, before gradually getting warmer toward Thanksgiving.—
Kaycee Sloan,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
21 Oct. 2025 -
Allow dogs to explore decorations gradually.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
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Plutonium is also the principal fuel in a fast neutron reactor, and in any reactor, it is progressively bred from non-fissile U-238 that comprises over 99 percent of natural uranium.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Oct. 2025
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Cheung said Nicholson’s mental health struggles began in 2012, progressively worsening over the years and culminating into multiple hospital stays, City News Service reported.—
Daniella Segura,
Sacbee.com,
23 Oct. 2025
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The success of the The Black Phone 2 bodes well not just for horror, but for original ideas in a production landscape increasingly dominated by reboots, remakes, and adaptations of existing IP — any IP, an even inert children's toy.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
19 Oct. 2025
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In 2006–07 fundraising and deployment cycles, firms rushed to put money to work and paid increasingly high prices, stretching valuations.—
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
19 Oct. 2025
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What was once beyond the pale has little by little become accepted.—
Evan Hughes,
The Atlantic,
20 Oct. 2025
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But little by little, a new wave of neuroscientists started questioning this status quo, Andrillon said.—
Yasemin Saplakoglu,
Quanta Magazine,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Hierarchically.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hierarchically. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.
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