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mazards

noun

variants or mazzards

plural of mazard, chiefly dialect

as in heads

the upper or front part of the body that contains the brain, the major sense organs, and the mouth Granny threatened to whop me on the mazard if I didn't start minding my manners

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Noun

Before the paddock heads to Madrid for the last European race of the season, here’s the latest edition of our post-race F1 mailbag.

— Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Your best FinOps practitioners’ instincts are the raw material for this next wave, and the organizations that pull ahead will capture that expertise as policy an agent can act on, rather than leaving it locked in a few people’s heads.

— Devendra Rajput, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026

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Today’s recipe One key to the success of Daniele Uditi’s pasta e fagioli is the beans — pale yellow Peruanos from Mexico by way of Peru instead of the more traditional Italian cannellini beans.

— Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026
Nonprofits sell food like ham and beans, hot chocolate, and bread-bowl soup.

— Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 2 Sep. 2026

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Their prototype domes are only about the size of a wine cork at this point, but their compressive strength is comparable to low-grade concrete.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2026
The team currently produces small test domes roughly the size of a wine cork.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2026

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As polls show the public increasingly favoring guardrails for AI safety — and opposing data center buildouts — the White House is likely to face still more calls for an explanation of why a more transparent framework is not possible.

— Ashley Gold, semafor.com, 9 Sep. 2026
In the past, while some businesses did have the opportunity to physically interact and communicate with customers directly, many were limited to receiving input through surveys and polls.

— Stu Sjouwerman, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026

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The Central Valley is known as America’s salad bowl, for its vast production fruits, vegetables and nuts that stock refrigerators and kitchen tables across America.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2026
Many of California’s Asian American leaders have come through that boot camp, which provides training on the nuts-and-bolts of organizing, media relations, and messaging.

— Gene Maddaus, Variety, 2 Sep. 2026

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Anyone who has worked with fresh pasta knows the line between al dente and flabby noodles is infinitesimally fine.

— Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 8 Sep. 2026
The pasta—a hair clump of noodles in a soupy, sweetish tomato sauce—came in one of those parsimonious bowls with a small hollow in the middle and a rim as broad as Saturn’s rings.

— Ruby Tandoh, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026

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The World Trade Center operators turned to restaurant impresario Joe Baum to create a dining experience that would draw people to the Manhattan neighborhood largely known for its blocks of stores that sold radios and electronic parts.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026
With a top manager in place, and a dressing room united behind him, the building blocks are all there for a positive year.

— Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026

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