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Recent Examples of namerAnd Elia Kazan, the most notorious name-namer of them all, was simply a courageous patriot who told the truth.—
Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
20 May 2026
That growth prompted voters to approve a bond measure that funded improvements across the district, including the expansion of Windsor Middle School, after the opening of the town's second middle school a few years ago.
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Dillon Thomas,
CBS News,
14 July 2026
Early voting locations will be open in Johnson and Wyandotte County for voters to cast their ballots.
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Joseph Hernandez,
Kansas City Star,
13 July 2026
The next altcoin cycle will look less like a rising tide and more like a stock-picker's market, forcing traders and investors to become more selective than ever.
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Anastasia Chernikova,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
The risks are especially acute for temporary workers, subcontractors and waste pickers, the study said.
In some ultra-competitive genres—Northern soul, hip-hop, jungle—selectors have been known to cover up the center stickers of their records, or leave white labels unmarked, to throw boothsnooping DJs off the scent.
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Philip Sherburne,
Pitchfork,
18 July 2026
Marcus North, the England national men’s selector, arrived just in time to witness it first-hand.
Each state’s number of electors equals the size of its congressional delegation, or the number of senators (2) plus the number of Representatives for the state.
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Marlow Stern,
Variety,
22 June 2026
In Arizona, defense lawyers argued the law allowed for multiple slates of electors to be submitted to Congress in case the results were disputed.
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Jacques Billeaud,
Los Angeles Times,
18 June 2026