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Recent Examples of micronizeThankfully they’ve have been upgraded in recent years to be micronized so the white cast isn’t as noticeable.—Holly Carter, Peoplemag, 1 June 2023
Last year, the Dominican Republic deported more than 100,000 Haitians back to their disintegrating country.
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George Packer,
The Atlantic,
24 Mar. 2026
The meteor traveled about 58 miles through the upper atmosphere before disintegrating 29 miles above tiny Calflax in unincorporated Fresno County, Cooke said.
Each day, an FX makeup team used around 400 prosthetics on the passengers, and made 3,000 gel capsules filled with sodium bicarbonate, citric acid and red powdered Kool-Aid.
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Emily Longeretta,
Variety,
6 Mar. 2026
My eyes scanned the faces around me, all of them powdered in ash.
After crushing Ukraine’s power grid during one of the worst winters in recent memory, Russian drone and missile barrages of civilian areas have continued unabated.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
26 Mar. 2026
Stir together flour, cornstarch, black pepper, salt, paprika, garlic powder, and crushed red pepper in a separate shallow bowl.
The biggest reason why is the Gators’ four-man meat grinder of a frontcourt, which pulverizes opponents defensively and on the offensive glass.
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Brendan Marks,
New York Times,
5 Mar. 2026
The remaining bones are dried and pulverized into a fine white dust, providing families with remains that can be kept, scattered, or buried exactly like traditional ashes.
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Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Mar. 2026
The vendor chalked this up to Apple controlling the entire update stack, as opposed to Android, where updates are likely fragmented across diverse manufacturers and device types.
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Will McCurdy,
PC Magazine,
28 Mar. 2026
Letters are fragmented into the surrounding steps, allowing visitors to interact with the text and engage with the memory of these women in a tactile, participatory way.
After declining to run for governor, Harris is believed to be mulling another run for president.
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Lia Russell
March 26,
Sacbee.com,
26 Mar. 2026
Bloomberg, meanwhile, reported that HSBC CEO Georges Elhedery is mulling job cuts that could affect middle and back offices, affecting as much as 20,000 roles, because of AI’s impact on financial services.
Tim Brinkhof Million Stories Many were expecting extremism survivor and free speech advocate Salman Rushdie to take home the Nobel Prize in Literature, but Annie Ernaux beat him to it.
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Big Think,
Big Think,
25 Mar. 2026
Mikael Granlund scored twice, Alex Killorn had a goal and an assist, and the Anaheim Ducks beat the Vancouver Canucks 5-3 on Thursday night.