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The Portage, Michigan, native threw up his hands in disbelief after Hamlin bumped him from the pole at his home track.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
6 June 2026 -
Clark throws up, then goes off Fever star Caitlin Clark looked particularly fatigued during certain stretches and threw up at halftime.—
James Boyd,
New York Times,
5 June 2026
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What’s new here is the possibility of a compound that actively rebuilds bone by targeting the body’s own cellular machinery.—
Allison Palmer
June 4,
Miami Herald,
4 June 2026
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After losing everything in Montana, the couple tries to rebuild with Carter (Finn Little) but quickly runs into a new threat — a powerful rival ranch led by Beulah Jackson (Annette Bening) and her sons, who are determined to protect their empire at any cost, according to the series’ synopsis.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA Today,
4 June 2026
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Today, that number has jumped to 64, with dozens more currently being retrofitted.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
2 June 2026
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For example, retrofitting a home to withstand hurricane-force winds saves property owners $6 for every $1 invested, on average, according to a 2019 study by the National Institute of Building Sciences.—
Greg Iacurci,
CNBC,
2 June 2026
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Tuck them away when needed and easily reassemble them in a pinch for surprise company.—
Betsy Cribb Watson,
Southern Living,
13 May 2026
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As founder of Celera Genomics in 1998, Venter honed his method of decoding—whole-genome shotgun sequencing—which can rapidly sequence different parts of the genome at the same time and then uses machine learning to reassemble them in the right order.—
Claire Cameron,
Scientific American,
30 Apr. 2026
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His reporting in Kentucky exposed the inner workings of power, from revealing a House GOP leader’s ties to a gaming company during a legislative fight to reconstructing how a $125 million public project was fast-tracked with little transparency.—
Dana Banker,
Miami Herald,
1 June 2026
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When something does go wrong, no one can reconstruct what the system actually was at the moment of failure.—
Pranay Ahlawat,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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First class Etihad Apartments; Singapore Suites; combing first class on Airbus A380s on all the major Gulf airlines in a single trip; combining six different airline first class products in a single round trip.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
3 June 2026
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Until Lopez’s blast, Texas A&M right-hander Clayton Freshcorn had slowed down a USC offense that had scored 48 runs combined while winning three consecutive games out of the losers’ bracket, including 14 on Sunday night against Texas A&M (41-16), to force the winner-take-all final.—
Jose de Jesus Ortiz,
Los Angeles Times,
2 June 2026
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Scattered rain is forecast to redevelop overnight.—
Cutter Martin,
CBS News,
27 May 2026
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His eponymous firm has designed scientific facilities for the UK and Spain, developed proposals for South Korea, India and Brazil, and worked with Australia and New Zealand to redevelop their polar bases.—
Oscar Holland,
CNN Money,
25 May 2026
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The commonly mistaken base assumption is that the greatest minds that have devised AI and consumed so much money doing so must certainly know every iota of how AI works.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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Building on a concept devised by the director and producer Pierre-Henri Léon, Santiago Otheguy’s script plays fast and loose with Bizet’s opera and the Prosper Mérimée novella that inspired it — to the point of inventing an entirely new protagonist.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
31 May 2026
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“Jerry-build.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jerry-build. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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