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New Shepard design broadens access to suborbital spaceflight From its earliest design stages, the New Shepard has incorporated features intended to lower physical barriers to spaceflight.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Dec. 2025 -
The announcement Monday from the Food and Drug Administration broadens the drug’s use to older women who have gone through menopause.—
Matthew Perrone,
Fortune,
15 Dec. 2025
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As the frame widens, the pacing slows, and the Shakers’ movement pauses, what Fastvold captures is how, out of the expanse of America, the Shakers start to find structure.—
Chris O'Falt,
IndieWire,
7 Jan. 2026
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By focusing on the persistence of private life during wartime, the book widens from an investigation into a kind of communal portrait, literally illustrating the way injustice contorts and is resisted by people, together and alone.—
Robert Rubsam,
The Atlantic,
18 Dec. 2025
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“Overextends.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overextends. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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