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as in overdoes
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Alexander’s staging occasionally overdoes the comic exuberance.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Feb. 2026 -
But Maura never overdoes the feisty granny bit.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Oct. 2025
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Musk owns around 42% of the total equity, but Musk exerts 85% control courtesy of his overwhelming ownership of the B’s.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
29 May 2026
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One is a compass-like mechanism, whereby the Earth exerts a pull on magnetic particles in a bird’s upper beak that relays directional information via a large nerve in the cranium.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
28 May 2026
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That’s important, since many people make the mistake—both in the gym and daily life—of shrugging their shoulders up to their ears, which overuses the upper traps and elevates the scapula.—
Jenny McCoy,
SELF,
25 Aug. 2025
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Nate Bargatze’s new movie, The Breadwinner (in theaters now), tries to recapture the magic of the mid-tier comedy, David Sims writes.—
Will Gottsegen,
The Atlantic,
6 June 2026
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The Braves have won the opening game of a home series nine times in 10 tries this season.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
5 June 2026
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The video shows the religious leader begging the Lebanese Army not to withdraw from southern Lebanon, as Israel invades.—
Lauren Frayer,
NPR,
5 Apr. 2026
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Acute myeloid leukemia begins in the bone marrow and typically invades the bloodstream thereafter, according to the American Cancer Society.—
David Oliver,
USA Today,
17 Mar. 2026
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The shooter Stephane Cardinale, veteran of runways and red carpets on every continent that has them, exercises his fine eye for notable off-duty folk just being themselves here.—
Guy Martin,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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The vessel is expected to participate in the upcoming Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) naval exercises off the coast of Hawaii later this year.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
28 May 2026
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Paglen’s ideas, collected between two covers, carve a clean, linear path through our messy neural era, engaging in the kind of big-picture sense-making that books remain well suited to do, even as AI encroaches on this terrain.—
Louis Bury,
ARTnews.com,
1 May 2026
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Meta, Anthropic and Apple all now use TPUs, as Google increasingly encroaches on a market cornered by Nvidia's graphics processing units.—
Katie Tarasov,
CNBC,
20 Apr. 2026
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Unlimited special-interest and private money in elections entrenches commitments to existing tax breaks and spending programs.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
28 May 2026
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The 27-year-old’s withdrawal further entrenches Jonas Vingegaard’s status as the overwhelming favourite — bidding to become the only active rider to have won all three Grand Tours — having only taken victory at the Vuelta by one minute and 16 seconds over the Portuguese rider.—
Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026
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“Overworks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overworks. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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