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Assuming the roster gets back to full health, the givens ahead of Pelle in the rotation would be Tyler Herro, Bam Adebayo, Kel’el Ware, Andrew Wiggins and, perhaps, Davion Mitchell.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
2 Apr. 2025 -
There are some givens in the B’s lineup, as long as there’s good health.—
Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
26 Sep. 2024
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The Sparks’ social media account took a swipe at their opponents and used Sophie Cunningham’s comments about WNBA expansion as its premise.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
7 July 2025
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Ensure your home is securely locked when vacating the premises.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
7 July 2025
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The presumption is that Wallace is the basketball guy and Tenzer is the numbers guru.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
23 June 2025
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In the past, this mattered little as states acted with a presumption of openness and minimal restrictions.—
Emily Kilcrease,
Foreign Affairs,
9 June 2025
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Ultimately, the old dictum still stands – Garbage in, garbage out.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2025
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At a Vanity Fair party, Diddy admonished Nash because Cassie’s hair was not in keeping with his dictum.—
Victoria Bekiempis,
Vulture,
28 May 2025
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Also called Euclid’s fifth postulate, this rule tells us the following: Suppose you’re given a line.—
Rachel Crowell,
Scientific American,
6 Dec. 2023
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In the 1800s, Bertrand’s postulate showed that for any n>3, there is always a prime number between n and 2n.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
28 Nov. 2023
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The judge concluded that Meta’s use was protected under the doctrine of fair use.—
Aron Solomon
June 27,
Literary Hub,
27 June 2025
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The doctrine was upended for a time in the U.S. by the Supreme Court's notorious Dred Scott ruling.—
Bill Chappell,
NPR,
27 June 2025
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The capitalist assumption that individuals should earn their livelihood through labor doesn't work anymore when machines outperform humans at both speed and cost.—
Newsweek Staff,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 June 2025
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However, that was based on the assumption that the district would receive $300 million in additional funding from the state or the city, which hasn’t materialized.—
Kate Armanini,
Chicago Tribune,
27 June 2025
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To prove those true statements, mathematicians would have to add a new axiom.—
Gregory Barber,
Quanta Magazine,
20 June 2025
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In his first inaugural address in 1933, former President Franklin D. Roosevelt laid out a political axiom that would come to shrewdly diagnose America's thorny brand of insularity.—
Clare Morell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 May 2025
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