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Outside one house on Tuesday evening, seven people quickly moved large tree branches away from the structure and shoveled sand onto the fire in a desperate attempt to keep the blaze from spreading from the house next door, according to the AP.—
Mary Gilbert,
CNN Money,
3 Sep. 2025 -
Hayes is now a long ways away from his teenage years shoveling driveways, and his early career as a postal-service worker.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
30 Aug. 2025
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Jingia dongxingensis was excavated from the Dongxing Formation and was named a new genus and species in 2024.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
2 Sep. 2025
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Other mining jobs include continuous mining machine operators, excavating/loading machine and dragline operators, and construction equipment operators.—
Noël Fletcher,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Hollow (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hollow%20%28out%29. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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