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Adjective
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The council, in granting initial approval, said petitioners must provide a full development plan and agree to improvements at the site.—
Deborah Laverty,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Apr. 2026 -
Your intense focus can turn initial success into lasting momentum, while positive self-talk prevents burnout if any snags slow the pace.—
Tarot.com,
Hartford Courant,
17 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The first offset was the development of nuclear weapons, which secured American dominance over a Soviet Union that could rely on mass mobilization.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
15 Apr. 2026
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System sales to China fell to 19% of overall sales in the first quarter, compared to 36% in the December quarter.—
Arjun Kharpal,
CNBC,
15 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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When Rick Alden founded Skullcandy, the headphones and earbuds brand, Paul managed the company’s production operations in China during its formative years, according to the release.—
Angela Palermo
April 16,
Idaho Statesman,
16 Apr. 2026
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What’s the point of building formative assessments into a course if they’re just handed off to an LLM?—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
13 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Vaccinating our faculty and staff is our first step toward keeping our schools open and safe and will be inceptive to reopening our economy.—
Margaret W. Long,
chicagotribune.com,
19 Nov. 2020
Adjective
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The mood is unsettled; the structure is amorphous and inchoate.—
Philip Sherburne,
Pitchfork,
25 Mar. 2026
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In Short’s case, the flattening is particularly egregious, because the inchoate facts of her life are shoehorned into the obsessions of amateur sleuths who continue to get those facts wrong.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The original cost was $510,000 but that's gone up by an additional $75,000 due to import tariffs and taxes.—
James Taylor,
CBS News,
17 Apr. 2026
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Due to building restrictions, the team stuck with the original footprint but were able to extend the height 15 feet, making way for more gracious guest rooms.—
Hannah Martin,
Architectural Digest,
16 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Their evident fondness for one another, glowing warmly alongside all their sniping and whispering and eye-rolling, allows all the nightmares in Big Mistakes to feel like a lark rather than an incipient calamity.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2026
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His incipient political ascent has been marred by tragedy—41 people died and more than 80 were injured in a stampede at a TVK rally in 2025.—
Gitanjali Roy,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
9 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The drama will be backed by production financing from Calculus Media, with international sales and distribution handled by nascent sales house High Road Entertainment, run by James Durie and Richard Tulk-Hart.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
13 Apr. 2026
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Pop is a Coachella vet, having first played solo in 2001 during the then nascent fest’s second installment.—
Althea Legaspi,
Rolling Stone,
13 Apr. 2026
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