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Set four years after the events of the original film, Nobody 2 finds Hutch back at work as full-time assassin, mainly because a criminal organization bankrolled the $30 million Hutch needed to pay back the Russian mob after burning their gigantic stash of cash in the 2021 film.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
16 Aug. 2025 -
Advertisement The truth is, Trump needed a deal more than Putin did.—
Richard Stengel,
Time,
16 Aug. 2025
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Using his electric superpower, Fester causes an explosion that frees the L.O.I.S. subjects from their cells.—
Selome Hailu,
Variety,
7 Aug. 2025
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Machine learning reviews production data to identify bottlenecks or root causes of errors, freeing up capacity and improving output.—
Bill Rokos,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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The Endgame: Walled Gardens With Super Agents No retailer or marketplace wants its data powering a rival’s AI agent.—
Jason Goldberg,
Forbes.com,
9 Aug. 2025
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Before heading back to the beach house, the pair stops to grab a snack – only Belly wants to stop at a peach stand, and Conrad is allergic to the fruit.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
People.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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But Rubin also prizes his ability to switch off: For each of the last eight Augusts, Rubin has unplugged completely from the Internet for a full month, as a kind of mental reset.—
Andrew R. Chow,
Time,
1 Aug. 2025
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While the landscape has exploded (and sometimes imploded) with gimmicks and guru hype, Miraval’s approach has always stayed true to the basics of its original 1995 mission: helping people unplug, reflect and just chill out a little.—
David Hochman,
Forbes.com,
29 July 2025
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Still, the Justice Department has argued that the public's interest in Epstein's and Maxwell's cases justifies treating the transcripts from their grand jury proceedings differently.—
Aysha Bagchi,
USA Today,
5 Aug. 2025
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Invoking national security to justify private sector economic development is a tired cliché.—
Kevin Green,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Aug. 2025
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Unfortunately, even if the robot slur trend died tomorrow, whatever took its place would most likely be equally rooted in shocking and controversial language.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
6 Aug. 2025
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Disney has already taken steps to integrate Hulu and Disney+.—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
6 Aug. 2025
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The second goal was to find a location for the meeting that would demonstrate, both to Russians and to leaders around the world, that Putin is no longer a pariah avoiding travel for fear of arrest under a war crimes warrant the International Criminal Court issued against him in 2023.—
Marc Champion,
Twin Cities,
13 Aug. 2025
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While this is still preliminary research, the results are promising and now warrant further pre-clinical studies to assess broader safety and dosing, paving the way for human trials.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
13 Aug. 2025
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“Open (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/open%20%28up%29. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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