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Add beef to Dutch oven and cook, undisturbed, until deeply browned on 2 sides, about 8 minutes.—
Amanda Stanfield,
Southern Living,
9 Nov. 2025 -
In Getaria, the star ingredient, fish, is typically cooked on the grill outside the door of every restaurant.—
Michelle Arellano Martin,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Nov. 2025
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Translate all documents given to detainees into Spanish and refrain from misrepresenting their contents.—
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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Residents and local leaders have said that TCEQ misrepresented the nature of the intersection in a traffic study completed for the application.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
31 Oct. 2025
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An earlier version of this article misstated that fact.—
Bob Woods,
CNBC,
9 Nov. 2025
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Due to an editing error, a previous version of this article misstated the victims’ names in the subheadline.—
Jay Ganglani,
NBC news,
5 Nov. 2025
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The grand jury also accused Childers of arresting a person without a warrant and probable cause, and falsifying an incident report regarding his use of force on a person in a cell.—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
5 Nov. 2025
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This gives the false impression that scientific progress comes only in paradigm-shifting insights that overturn previous thinking, and that all new hypotheses are equally probable until falsified.—
Zack Savitsky,
Quanta Magazine,
29 Oct. 2025
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The health secretary also appeared to misspeak at the meeting, saying two people had died of the disease.—
DEVI SHASTRI AND AMANDA SEITZ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
arkansasonline.com,
27 Feb. 2025
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Kennedy also seemed to misspeak in saying two people had died of measles.—
Amanda Seitz,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Feb. 2025
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At the start of the trial Thursday, DOJ lawyers contended that Lin’s explanation was misinterpreted.—
Ella Lee,
The Hill,
29 Oct. 2025
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Garth Shanklin, New Richmond's director of communications, said the district misinterpreted the department's letter.—
Grace Tucker,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
23 Oct. 2025
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Over the summer, officials in Turkey — where the lawsuit says some of the allegedly fraudulent Drake streams originated — started investigating Spotify over several allegations, including bribes for playlist placement and bot streams distorting domestic charts.—
Nancy Dillon,
Rolling Stone,
3 Nov. 2025
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Meanwhile, the right shoe starts with a black pigskin suede base and mixes in blurred and distorted details to represent the pixelated side.—
Riley Jones,
Footwear News,
31 Oct. 2025
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This could be because the natural activity of supermassive black holes and the emissions that come from the accretion disk around them can camouflage TDEs.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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When asked about this tactic, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said that the agency believes its employees are not camouflaging their identities.—
NPR,
NPR,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Misdescribe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misdescribe. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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