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as in groups
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as in parallels
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The Straight Creek Trail is an old double-track road that parallels Interstate 70 up to the Eisenhower-Johnson Tunnel, according to White River National Forest.—
Lauren Penington,
Denver Post,
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It’s located in a part of southwest Charlotte that saw a boom in development after the completion of Interstate 485, which parallels Whitehall Park Drive.—
Mark Price,
Charlotte Observer,
27 Feb. 2026
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But these strengths also create an opening to reassess their long-term strategy and asset allocation, and to consider whether their 100-year plan still aligns with their goals.—
Belinda G. Schwartz,
Fortune,
7 Mar. 2026
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Boroujerdi, the Iran scholar, said the preference for Fox aligns with broader trends.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2026
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The agreement approved by the City Commission on Tuesday prohibits immigrant detainees from being released into Leavenworth unless they were arrested there or if a court specifically orders it.—
Matthew Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
10 Mar. 2026
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Four-up works to Weis’s strengths When the wind drops, the race management orders the crews to reduce from their standard six on board in order to take weight out of the boat.—
Andrew Rice,
New York Times,
1 Mar. 2026
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The president is seeking $10 billion in damages; Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed last week that all of it would come from the Treasury General Account, which consists entirely of taxpayer dollars.—
Will Gottsegen,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb. 2026
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This group consists largely of women who are very poor and have left the workforce to become caretakers.—
Samantha Liss,
CBS News,
11 Feb. 2026
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For many Americans, the number barely registers.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
2 Mar. 2026
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Two tenderloins roast in the oven, their syrupy pan juices thickening, until a thermometer registers 130 degrees.—
The New York Times News Service Syndicate,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Feb. 2026
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The new lantern instead matches the modal capacity of the lasers and the fiber.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Mar. 2026
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In terms of speed, the 17e beats the 16e and mostly matches the iPhone 17, which is great.—
Eric Zeman,
PC Magazine,
9 Mar. 2026
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This analysis was aided by the use of BTInsights, an AI open-end coding software that sorts responses into similar categories.—
Emily Guskin,
ABC News,
24 Feb. 2026
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Realignment is the process by which the UIL, the state’s governing body for high school sports, reassigns schools across Texas into classifications based on enrollment, and then sorts them into districts.—
Ishmael Johnson,
Dallas Morning News,
30 Jan. 2026
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That equals five or six days’ worth of normal shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, or a bit over one day’s worth of global consumption of about 101 million barrels per day.—
David McHugh,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Mar. 2026
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Can’t please everybody, but five playoff trips in the past seven years equals equity for this regime.—
Cam Inman,
Mercury News,
9 Mar. 2026
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