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Prosecutors said Kamnik also used the state's Justice Network, known as JNET, to obtain hundreds of photographs of women, violating database policies.—
Frederick Sutton Sinclair,
CBS News,
9 Apr. 2026 -
Several have also been sanctioned by foreign governments that accused them of supporting and serving in the military government or violating human rights.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
9 Apr. 2026
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The states argue the data collection risks invading student privacy, and leads to baseless investigations of colleges and universities.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
4 Apr. 2026
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Of these three exceptions, the only one that still applies is to the children of diplomats, as there are no invading armies, and Native Americans were granted automatic citizenship in 1924.—
Nina Totenberg,
NPR,
1 Apr. 2026
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Authentic sued Arena for breaching the SI licensing agreement, which was settled.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Apr. 2026
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Those reasons could include not paying rent, engaging in disorderly conduct or breaching the lease agreement, among other issues.—
Danielle J. Brown,
Baltimore Sun,
4 Apr. 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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The person who is the daughter’s supervisor is probably worried about offending the parent who also is her coworker.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Denver Post,
6 Apr. 2026
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The consequences of offending Miss Manners at this distance are, unfortunately, slight.—
Judith Martin,
Mercury News,
6 Apr. 2026
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Where that movie was about one man intruding upon everyone else’s thoughts, however, this one is about everyone else’s thoughts intruding upon one man.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
31 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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The selection of both Mojtaba Khamenei and Zolghadr also indicated that the regime’s hard-liners were doubling down and further entrenching themselves in response to the hostilities.—
Britannica Editors,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
31 Mar. 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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“Infringing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infringing. Accessed 11 Apr. 2026.
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