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Noun
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The face of the moon never looks the same from one night to the next, as the shifting angle between the moon and sun causes sunlight to sweep across its surface, altering the shadows cast by craters, mountain ranges and ravines.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
23 May 2026 -
The trees here don't speak to people, but locals say the spirit of an old man inhabits the shadows between the branches.—
Christopher Elliott,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2026
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Avoid spraying when wind speeds exceed 5 miles per hour and use a low spray pressure to increase droplet size, as larger particles are less likely to move with the wind.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
29 May 2026
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One is a compass-like mechanism, whereby the Earth exerts a pull on magnetic particles in a bird’s upper beak that relays directional information via a large nerve in the cranium.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
28 May 2026
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The Cubs have already had two 10-game winning streaks this season.—
Sahadev Sharma,
New York Times,
28 May 2026
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David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite soared to new records yesterday, both notching their longest win streaks in more than a month.—
Alex Harring,
CNBC,
27 May 2026
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Prime lips for a perfectly smooth, even application using the 3-in-1 Lip Scrub pen, which gently scrubs away dead skin with super-fine sugar granules and keeps lips hydrated with nourishing shea butter and algae.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
19 May 2026
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Fall rains can dissolve the granules and deliver nutrients to the root zones, says Mary Godinez, the owner of Cross Keys Farm.—
SJ McShane,
Martha Stewart,
13 May 2026
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Roberts doesn’t expect Ohtani to need X-rays on his hand, saying the pitch mostly hit the padding on his batting gloves.—
Maddie Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
27 May 2026
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Rumfield, who got plunked in the right hand by Emmet Sheehan, had X-rays taken at Dodger Stadium.—
Patrick Saunders,
Denver Post,
26 May 2026
Noun
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Blue Dot Fever symptoms include a visible rash of unsold Ticketmaster seats (shown as blue dots on the seat maps), an artist’s red face from the embarrassment of having to cancel shows, and disappointed fans.—
James Hibberd,
HollywoodReporter,
22 May 2026
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The challenge is to arrange those dots so that as many pairs as possible sit exactly one unit apart.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
20 May 2026
Noun
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The final syllables accelerate into a blur, whereupon a ritual of wailing erupts.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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After the breakdown plunges into a low-pass filter, the song emerges out the other hand with a fully fledged vocal, lyrics and all—a relatively rarity in Willner’s world of half-syllables and blurred phrases.—
Andrew Ryce,
Pitchfork,
18 May 2026
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Manipulations include everything from surgically removing key tissues to implanting beads soaked with signaling molecules to injecting DNA into cells to instruct them to make a different set of proteins.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
20 May 2026
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The quantum engineering of new molecules could lead to better drugs and to batteries that don’t use costly, environmentally damaging commodities such as rare earth elements.—
Zeeya Merali,
Scientific American,
19 May 2026
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“Minima.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/minima. Accessed 29 May. 2026.
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