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As Altadena rebuilds, Good Neighbor has, essentially, become a daily support group, where neighbors can find comfort and a sense of permanence when everything else is unsure.—
Esther Tseng,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
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As Hezbollah rebuilds its forces and Lebanon is accused of failing to enforce the ceasefire terms brokered last year, Israel's defense minister has fired off a warning to Beirut.—
Efrat Lachter,
FOXNews.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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The weekend after an international break often throws up uncertainties, but Mikel Arteta’s team are reliably competitive and the loss of their captain, Martin Odegaard, to injury shouldn’t change that.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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But sometimes Test cricket throws up something so utterly gripping, unrivalled in sports.—
Tristan Lavalette,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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Poppy seed dressing, popularized in the 1950s, combines sugar, vinegar, mustard, onion and oil with poppy seeds.—
Deirdre Bardolf,
FOXNews.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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His keen playful writing combines magical realism, genre-busting humor, literary zip—and there are few people better suited to adapting Wilder than Ethan Lipton.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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Four years later, her company, DB Trucks, buys and builds water trucks, or retrofits trucks that customers own, for uses like construction sites and firefighting.—
Corina Vanek,
AZCentral.com,
30 Sep. 2025
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Schlott makes any necessary repairs and in the case of the general store phone, retrofits them with VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) technology to enable calls.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
27 Aug. 2025
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The Perfect Neighbor reconstructs the events leading up to and immediately following the shooting, largely via police body camera footage.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
22 Oct. 2025
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Written and directed by Pérez Rial, the film reconstructs the exile of Sosa, who was arrested during a 1978 concert in La Plata and later forced to flee Argentina’s dictatorship.—
Emiliano De Pablos,
Variety,
20 Oct. 2025
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Felicity Jones Jones broke up the string of Max Mara designs with a look by Thom Browne.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
7 Nov. 2025
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Corcoran designs greeting cards, prints and notepads in a style that is nostalgic for expatriates, said Crawford, whose mother is an expat.—
Mars King,
Twin Cities,
7 Nov. 2025
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