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For years now, the Upper West Side has been a microcosm of the deep divisions within the Jewish community over Israel’s response to Hamas’s October 7 attack.

— Hannah Seligson, Vanity Fair, 28 Sep. 2026
The juxtaposition between the journalist and the actor became a microcosm for the tension inherent in creating must-see television out of entrapment and public humiliation.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 Sep. 2026

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During this episode, Cruz reflects on her path from her mother’s hair salon to her hero Almodóvar’s cinematic universe; the challenges of navigating a career across continents and languages; and her incredible 2026.

— Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 5 Oct. 2026
An ad tech company used the same approach to evaluate a broad universe of opportunities, identify those with strong commercial fit and turn them into specific account targets, executive conversations and outreach.

— Adam Feiner, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026

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In addition to this some young neutron stars, known as pulsars, spin as rapidly as 700 times per second while also blasting twin beams of radiation that sweep across the cosmos like beams of light from a cosmic lighthouse.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 Sep. 2026
The Swift Observatory has been observing the cosmos for more than two-decades, but its rapidly declining orbit has put it in jeopardy of reentering Earth's atmosphere and burning up.

— Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026

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Growers commonly use sticky traps, often tapes or red spheres that resemble ripening apples, along with chemical or food-based lures, to attract adult flies.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Sep. 2026
The hidden violence of cavitation For a long time, computational models treated water droplets as simple, uniform spheres governed primarily by their outer surface tension.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2026

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