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Recent Examples of linersMany shower curtain liners can be washed in the washing machine with baking soda to bust through tough grime and mildew and a towel to keep the liner from wrinkling.—Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 19 Jan. 2026 Just be sure to look for liners topped with rust-resistant metal grommets, as a trail of rust streaking your liner can be very unsightly.—Shivani Vyas, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Nov. 2025
Meanwhile, the richest among us shower him with cash, planes, gold and cryptocurrency to curry pardons for their criminal activities and policies favorable for their businesses.
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Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
10 Feb. 2026
Unlike tennis or baseball, where the action focuses on a single point or zone, football is played across multiple planes simultaneously.
It is widely regarded as a navalized successor to earlier Chinese stealth drone programs, optimized for operation from large surface ships equipped with advanced launch systems.
This was, on its face, a minor achievement; after all, airplanes had been flying themselves for decades.
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
Sylvia Mejia-Bivens remembers growing up down the street from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport and watching airplanes take off, wishing one day to be close to them.
AutoFlight has unveiled Matrix, a five-ton electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, and completed a public full-transition flight at its low-altitude test center.
Although its rigid design hearkens back to the gargantuan airships of the early 20th century, Pathfinder 1 is almost completely different from any large airship that has flown before.
The worst day of Probationary Firefighter Jerrell Nedd’s young life was on 9/11 when terrorists flew passenger jets into the World Trade Center, killing his father, a chef at Windows on the World restaurant atop the North Tower, and more than 2,700 others.
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Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
10 Feb. 2026
Boeing announced the delivery of 46 jets in January, one more than a year ago.