The death toll was so high partly because many people lived in cave dwellings carved into soft loess soil.
—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
15 June 2026
As host, French President Emmanuel Macron has carved out time for the leaders to talk about how to rebalance trade with China, amid fears that soaring Chinese exports of cars and other products could wreck G-7 industries.
To alleviate all that blockiness and bulk, the architects chiseled it like a block of marble, shaving here, notching there, bumping out, and pulling in to give it interest in the round.
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Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
4 June 2026
Jokes, gags, set pieces, and even whole characters and storylines slowly get chiseled down and weeded out through development, production, and post-production.
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Entertainment Weekly,
Entertainment Weekly,
2 June 2026
Like many cities in the report, Dallas also actually saw a year-over-year effective salary bump, likely because of slightly lower effective tax rates and living costs that have hewed closer to the national average.
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