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Rice was unavailable for Friday’s game, serving the first game of his six-game league suspension for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy.—
Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
6 Sep. 2025 -
Bubba is named in the suit, accused of helping to develop the film using Hulk’s trademarks without permission, and of violating a settlement agreement.—
Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
5 Sep. 2025
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Just a few decades later, however, historic records describe sand dunes and scrublands invading the green valleys, water shortages, and in 1578 a massive El Niño flood that nearly ended the young colony.—
Ari Caramanica,
The Conversation,
8 Apr. 2025
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Led by Marcel Malanga's father, Christian Malanga, a Congolese political exile who ordinarily lived in Utah, the group of men attacked the home of a senior Congolese politician on May 19, 2024, before invading Kinshasa's sprawling presidential complex.—
NPR's International Desk,
NPR,
8 Apr. 2025
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Ashli Babbitt, the Air Force veteran and pro-Trump rioter who was shot and killed on January 6, 2021, after breaching a sensitive area of the US Capitol, will now receive military funeral honors.—
Jade Walker,
CNN Money,
29 Aug. 2025
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Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005, breaching New Orleans' levees and flooding much of the city.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Aug. 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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Democrats and progressives are unsure of much, wary of offending anyone in their coalition, and unclear who will lead them in 2028.—
David Weigel,
semafor.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Linehan shared the allegedly offending X posts on his Substack page.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Sep. 2025
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Mitchell, in contrast, subsumes himself into his subjects, seldom intruding on the surface of his own prose.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
17 Aug. 2025
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At once a pragmatist and a romantic, Corry sometimes struggles to keep her scientific brain from intruding on moments of sensory abandon and unguarded feeling.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
16 Aug. 2025
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Overly sweeping privacy laws have the unintended consequence of entrenching incumbents.—
Joel Thayer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Aug. 2025
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But this silence comes at a cost, stifling innovation and entrenching outdated methods.—
Celia Ford,
Vox,
3 Mar. 2025
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“Infringing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infringing. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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