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Nervous hands rummaging for tissues in handbags, sweaty embraces, last words of advice—and then, we were gone.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Feb. 2026 -
Those were her last words before the agent fired three bullets through the window, according to multiple videos taken from a number of angles.—
Theresa Braine,
Mercury News,
13 Jan. 2026
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Amazon has tons of deals on colorful wreaths that are perfect for spring.—
Jamie Weissman,
Better Homes & Gardens,
16 Feb. 2026
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Currently, isoprene is derived primarily from petroleum or natural gas—over 800,000 tons per year are refined from petroleum, mainly for the production of synthetic rubber.—
Srishti Gupta,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Feb. 2026
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There are several other ongoing furors about the president’s propensity to use his power in unusually personal ways.—
Niall Stanage,
The Hill,
5 Oct. 2025
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Or perhaps that is the concern conjured by the hysteria of Y2K—with its fads of fears pumped by a skepticism over technology and wars people could not hold so freshly after the recession of the early 1990s.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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Besides the aesthetic, homeowners are also being strategic in their changes, opting for functional improvements over fads.—
Michele Laufik,
Martha Stewart,
19 Jan. 2026
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That builds on similar trends throughout 2025, when the industry buoyed an otherwise slow labor market, as the nation’s hospitals, clinics and nursing homes kept hiring even as many employers pulled back.—
Abha Bhattarai,
Washington Post,
14 Feb. 2026
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These trends are like the hair equivalent of taking a deep, cleansing spring breath.—
Loren Savini,
Allure,
14 Feb. 2026
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Launched in 2025, the satellite provides a 240-kilometer imaging swath and revisits most of the global roughly every 12 days using fully polarimetric and interferometric radar modes.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Feb. 2026
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Federal analysts averaged data from hundreds of different transit agencies around the country using a variety of modes, including on-demand ride services, van pools, monorails, heavy rail and funicular rail cars that climb steep slopes.—
Caitlin McGlade,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Feb. 2026
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In public, Newsom speaks often and openly about his errors, fortifying his image as a bumptious, slightly hapless victim of his own enthusiasms.—
Nathan Heller,
New Yorker,
1 Feb. 2026
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Their online parlance is punctuated by empty enthusiasms, vicious aspersions, and obvious hypocrisies that rarely matter.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
30 Oct. 2025
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