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Brundage combined with sophomore defender Brooklynn Sosa multiple times throughout the match, with Sosa constantly making attacking runs down the right.—
Ishmael Johnson,
Dallas Morning News,
19 Mar. 2026 -
Galloway runs down a fly ball to right-center field.—
Caleb Yum,
Austin American Statesman,
17 Mar. 2026
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In Season 1 Morgan discovered Roman may have inadvertently become involved in Los Angeles' criminal underworld, and Karadec finds out Roman was an FBI informant who's likely now in Nevada.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
17 Sep. 2025
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Paul finds out and blows his top.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
4 Sep. 2025
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The device detects quick flashes in the atmosphere and is usually used to continuously map lightning strikes, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.—
Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
17 Mar. 2026
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Yet standard neurological imaging, such as MRI scans, almost never detects abnormalities, and most physicians, who understand the symptoms’ basis in only the most rudimentary sense, can offer little useful counsel.—
Jacob Stern,
The Atlantic,
16 Mar. 2026
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That’s what determines whether a crowd stays stable or tips toward danger.—
Yook JiHun,
Popular Science,
26 Mar. 2026
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Labin details the elaborate process of elimination that determines which socks to bring to the festival each year.—
Scott Neuman,
NPR,
26 Mar. 2026
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And the Supreme Court hears a case on mail-in voting.—
Kayla Hayempour,
NBC news,
23 Mar. 2026
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Deadline hears that Dana Walden, recently promoted to President and Chief Creative Officer at The Walt Disney Company, called Mills on Thursday night to check in.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
20 Mar. 2026
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What begins as a journey for father and son to spread the ashes of their wife and mother, Faye, quickly turns into a fantastical adventure the tests their relationship and digs up ghosts from Kratos' past.—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
27 Feb. 2026
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By chance, Bogdan digs up a gravesite that has bones laid on top of it—bones belonging to Peter Mercer.—
Barry Levitt,
Time,
28 Aug. 2025
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Placing wagers on election outcomes precedes modern-day statistical polling — the first of which was done by Elmer Gallup in the 1936 presidential election — according to Koleman Strumpf, an economics professor at Wake Forest University who studies prediction markets.—
Grace Hase,
Mercury News,
22 Mar. 2026
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Hopewell Hodges, a researcher at the University of Minnesota who studies the developmental resilience of children, says a child's world is like the rings of a tree, with the child at the center.—
Meg Anderson,
NPR,
22 Mar. 2026
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Amid all the admiring, even nostalgic, books and films commemorating America’s revolutionary beginnings in the lead-up to our country’s 250th birthday, Ellis’ book examines the underside of that time, specifically the failure to end slavery, and the failure to avoid Indian removal.—
The Know,
Denver Post,
22 Mar. 2026
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The film re-examines footage from a 1996 film by a Swedish journalist, who ventured deep into the Amazon to meet the Korubo tribe.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
20 Mar. 2026
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“Majors (in).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/majors%20%28in%29. Accessed 27 Mar. 2026.
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