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Recent analyses suggest that a significant share of workers will need to upskill or reskill in the coming years to remain competitive, with 40% of job skills forecasted to change by the end of the decade.—
Irma Becerra,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026 -
As of early April, about 70% of those held in ICE detention centers across the country — 42,722 out of 60,311– had no criminal conviction on record, according to national analyses.—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
22 May 2026
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The president’s comments on Tuesday are consistent with earlier remarks about his administration’s approach to the war.—
Brooke Migdon,
PEOPLE,
20 May 2026
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But there’s ephemera in the spiritual sense of craft—the spare remarks and objects that constitute the overflow cut for cleaner syntax or word count.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 May 2026
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Church’s landscapes from those traumatic years functioned as commentaries on the conflict’s course.—
Sebastian Smee,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Pau’s videos, operating both as personal diaries and layered social commentaries, reflect a territorial condition mired in uncertainty.—
Pauline J. Yao,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
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Photo of the constellation Boötes with annotations from IAU and Sky & Telescope.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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Note the two identical charts below, one with annotations depicting the bottoming out process underway, and one with the 150-day moving average, also depicting a bottoming out reversal formation.—
Carter Braxton Worth,
CNBC,
15 May 2026
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That hormones shape our moods and feelings, wire our brains and guide numerous, diverse processes throughout the body means that the practice of endocrinology is not based around any particular organ.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 May 2026
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This story from breaking news reporter Marlene Lenthang examines the feelings of Latino vendors in and around SoFi Stadium in Inglewood amid the possibility of ICE agents working games — a gamble between their safety and a potentially lucrative payday.—
Elizabeth Robinson,
NBC news,
20 May 2026
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“Obiter dicta.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obiter%20dicta. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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