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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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The program also aligns with Leidos’ NorthStar 2030 strategy, which targets growth in large-scale technology modernization and cybersecurity work for US federal agencies.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Mar. 2026
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According to Stutzman, the WGSU has not backed off several demands, including the right to strike during the term of the agreement and a contract term that aligns with the MBA bargaining cycle.—
Gene Maddaus,
Variety,
14 Mar. 2026
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Jacob Elordi walks up to the bar with his arm around his mom and orders tequila on the rocks with a lime.—
Rachel Handler,
Vulture,
16 Mar. 2026
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Princess Kate brewed her husband a cappuccino sans latte art, but Prince William usually orders a decaf drink.—
Chanel Vargas,
InStyle,
12 Mar. 2026
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Events like this also provide a way to bring the increasingly popular active-travel segment into the safari world, which, despite its rugged reputation, consists largely of being ferried about in Land Cruisers.—
Tom Vanderbilt,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 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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Having a government agency that automatically registers millions of young Americans for military service seems like unnecessary overreach.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
10 Mar. 2026
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For many Americans, the number barely registers.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
2 Mar. 2026
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Colorado voters will decide whether transgender children can play sports with the gender that matches their gender identity or whether they'll be forced to play with other children of the same gender they were assigned at birth.—
Austen Erblat,
CBS News,
18 Mar. 2026
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Further, the act requires the full name on your valid photo ID matches your birth certificate or naturalization card.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
17 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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