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Hazan built a bespoke fuel-injection system, ignition mapping, and sensor array from scratch, running through an AMP EFI MS3Pro ECU that logs and monitors everything the engine is doing in real time.—
Eric Hendrikx,
Robb Report,
22 Apr. 2026 -
Many of the Russian flights that NATO monitors with its Baltic air policing mission, in place since Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia joined the alliance in 2004, are to and from the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
21 Apr. 2026
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The brain constantly updates this self-representation in response to what a person sees, feels and hears.—
Utkarsh Gupta,
Scientific American,
15 Apr. 2026
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One of the most common fears Shapiro hears about is job displacement and expendability.—
Bob Violino,
CNBC,
15 Apr. 2026
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When Claire and Frank retreat to Inverness on holiday following the end of WWII, Frank spies the spectre of a Highlander staring up into Claire's window that abruptly vanishes.—
Amy Wilkinson,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 Feb. 2026
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Alma peers through a keyhole and spies her mother (Susanne Wuest) standing before a candlelit shrine to the family’s dead.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
20 Nov. 2025
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June overhears all of this and is mad at Jolyon.—
Alice Burton,
Vulture,
30 Mar. 2026
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Rebekah overhears this plan and urges Jacob to disguise himself as Esau.—
Charles Preston,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
13 Mar. 2026
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“Listens in (on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/listens%20in%20%28on%29. Accessed 27 Apr. 2026.
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