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Art that moves you, love that consumes you, moments that feel like magic.—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
19 Oct. 2025 -
Altman previously said the average ChatGPT query consumes as much energy as a lightbulb would in a couple of minutes.—
Lisa Eadicicco,
CNN Money,
13 Oct. 2025
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Vaccarello, who was born and raised in Belgium to Sicilian parents, spends a month in Los Angeles twice each year, usually in March and November, a recuperation from the semiannual exertions of the women’s collection.—
Rob Haskell,
Vogue,
20 Oct. 2025
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According to the real-estate search engine StreetEasy, a property in Park Slope spends a median of seventy-eight days on the market.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
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The result is not just one exhausted employee, but a system that steadily depletes its people.—
Sandro da Silva,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Meanwhile, an iron-core collapse supernova happens after a star more than 10 times our sun’s mass finally depletes all its fuel and subsequently collapses into a neutron star or black hole.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
14 Aug. 2025
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Nothing, not even the slog of a miles long backcountry ski, exhausts me like chugging upward on two wheels.—
Outside Online,
Outside Online,
15 Oct. 2025
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Instead of gradually boiling into insanity, the film hits fever pitch hallucinations right away and quickly exhausts itself attempting to keep pace.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
11 Oct. 2025
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For years, American families have relished the vast marketplace that global trade offers, finding essentials and splurges online at prices tailored to various budgets.—
Leif Larson,
Boston Herald,
20 Aug. 2025
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Milei caters masterfully to Trump’s ego and will be president even if his party loses seats in Argentina’s legislature.—
Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
26 Oct. 2025
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The deeper the water, the sooner a vehicle loses traction on the road.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
26 Oct. 2025
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Either the Broncos offense wakes up, or this team squanders all of the goodwill from beating the Eagles last week.—
Joe Nguyen,
Denver Post,
12 Oct. 2025
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But Team Blue ultimately squanders their lead, completely botching the puzzle as the other two tribes smoke theirs.—
Nick Caruso,
TVLine,
1 Oct. 2025
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Central Arkansas Water, the regional water utility that provides drinking water to Little Rock, chose to raise rates in January 2023, adopting a 10-year schedule of increases that runs through 2032.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
22 Oct. 2025
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There’s kayaking and rafting on the Animas River that runs through town, hiking part of the Colorado Trail, and easy access to mountain biking in the Horse Gulch trail system, which takes off from right in town.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Overspends.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overspends. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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