Pete Crow-Armstrong then enlivened the dugout in the ninth with a nifty headfirst slide and swim move to avoid the tag as the Pirates played the infield in.
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Meghan Montemurro,
Chicago Tribune,
29 May 2026
For naturemaxxing, that means a desire to create surroundings that are enlivened with plants, layered green spaces, and outdoor views, says Andrews.
Watercress curled like a dragon’s tail through a broth infused with the pleasantly medical earthiness of chuan bei, an herb in the lily family known to help stem a cough.
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Bill Addison,
Los Angeles Times,
4 June 2026
To address safety and longevity, the researchers replaced flammable liquid electrolytes with a solid-state composite matrix made of ceramic-polyethylene oxide polymer infused with lithium-rich nanoparticles.
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Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
3 June 2026
Set in a 16th-century annex to Palazzo Borghese, whose verdant gardens are visible from the rooms on the upper floors, Hotel Vilòn was designed by architect Giampiero Panepinto and set designer Paolo Bonfini, who imbued it with a bit of cinematic flair.
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Laura Itzkowitz,
Robb Report,
4 June 2026
At the sentence level, its craftsmanship sings; her prose is as lush and imbued with the miraculous as it is lived-in and inviting.
Often mixed in to the beat are noisemakers like matracas – wooden objects in the shape of flags that produce a loud clacking sound when spun – and plastic horns called cornetas, which fans use to keep the matches animated from start to finish.
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Michael Rios,
CNN Money,
7 June 2026
Amazon's warehouse robot Proteus has animated eyes to communicate safely with humans.
Experiments like Strachey’s were part of an explosion of postwar research on the relationship between mathematics and language, expressions of a broader fascination with the automation of knowledge, which crossed disciplines and suffused the culture.
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Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
The rest of the film consists of the brother and sister’s return to the ranch, now suffused with dread at Misael’s inability to properly care for his sibling.
Inoculation involved taking pus from a pock of someone with a not-very-severe case of smallpox, making a cut in the arm of the person to be inoculated, and rubbing the pus into the cut.
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Diana Gitig,
ArsTechnica,
30 May 2026
In 1796, English physician Edward Jenner successfully inoculated 8-year-old James Phipps against smallpox by using cowpox matter.
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