In large-scale poultry operations, chickens are typically raised in very confined spaces, which offers them little to no opportunity for movement — let alone social enrichment.
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Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
And a subway car is a confined space where there may be no easy way to escape danger.
Unlike schools where the number of spots for both American students and international students are more limited, Miner says the dip is felt more at UC in a growing city such as Cincinnati.
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David Ferrara,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
30 Sep. 2025
Hundreds more were forced to sleep on cots in terminals overnight, as authorities scrambled to respond to unconfirmed but credible reports of drones in restricted airspace.
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Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
Things had finally intensified to where McTavish was on the phone with Morris five or six times a day after a lengthy and meaningful divide over term and worth resulting in the center withholding his services for the first 10 days of training camp as a restricted free agent without a contract.
With its single Xenomorph antagonist, its cramped environment, and its fairly helpless cast of characters, a video-game adaptation sounds like an exercise in pure dourness.
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Daniel Dockery,
Vulture,
22 Sep. 2025
The arrangement offers a cramped kind of luxury and a social life protected by doormen and security codes.
As a child in Cuba, Mike Fernandez watched as his teachers were replaced with government instructors, books vanished from classroom shelves and ultimately, Communist Party officials took over his dad's tiny sandwich stand.
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