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as in violating
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as in invading
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Meta must pay $375 million for violating New Mexico law in child exploitation case, jury rules.—
Dylan Butts,
CNBC,
25 Mar. 2026 -
In its latest report, Human Rights Watch said Israel's tactics of forcible displacement and deliberate targeting of civilians in Lebanon risk violating international law and constitute war crimes.—
NPR Staff,
NPR,
25 Mar. 2026
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The same belief system that pushed him to advocate for invading Iraq has driven him to speak out forcefully on immigration, on LGBT rights, and so on.—
Suzanne Schneider,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Mar. 2026
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Harold is known as the last Anglo-Saxon king who strove valiantly against invading threats, but whose efforts were ultimately futile, Wright added.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
23 Mar. 2026
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Passage has long been free and required no special permission, as formally guaranteed by the United Nations' 1982 Convention of the Law of the Sea, which means Iran is breaching international maritime law.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
28 Mar. 2026
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Pro-Iranian hacking group Handala claims credit for breaching FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal email account, posting old photos and documents online.—
Eric Tucker,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Mar. 2026
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In principle, besides fluctuating stars transients can be associated with other things, too, such as extreme space weather events impinging on the upper atmosphere, sunlight glinting off reflective objects near Earth, as well as flaws in the telescope or the imaging process.—
Jonathan O'Callaghan,
Scientific American,
27 Oct. 2025
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Workers aren’t necessarily worried about AI impinging on their jobs – a large majority, 80%, view AI technologies, including gen AI, as more of an opportunity than a threat.—
Joe McKendrick,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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Across the market, streamers appear increasingly reluctant to touch documentaries that risk offending political power centers or their allies.—
Addie Morfoot,
IndieWire,
22 Mar. 2026
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When acute injury is diagnosed quickly, clinicians can remove offending drugs or add protective ones.—
Jyoti Madhusoodanan,
Scientific American,
17 Mar. 2026
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But instead of being destroyed like other intruding pathogens, the spores germinate and multiply.—
Hannah Kinzer,
The Conversation,
25 Mar. 2026
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This vireo actually is singing its song to woo a mate or deter another potential romantic partner from intruding on its territory.—
Sheryl DeVore,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Feb. 2026
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The war also served as a springboard for battlefield heroes to achieve future political power, partially through entrenching and expanding the role of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps -- IRGC -- in the running of the country.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
8 Mar. 2026
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Far from retreating, the government is entrenching itself.—
Amanda Cats-Baril,
Twin Cities,
4 Mar. 2026
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“Infringing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infringing. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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