In most cases, the sellers' main objective is to discard their unwanted or unused items.
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Rebecca Jones,
Southern Living,
16 May 2026
Instead of discarding the sticks of gum Gaff had sampled, the detectives submitted them for forensic testing that resulted in his arrest for the 1984 murder of 42-year-old Judy Weaver.
The melting pot implied that citizens gradually shed the distinctiveness of their traditions in order to become fully American.
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Ari Berman,
New York Daily News,
15 May 2026
Once in the asteroid's orbit, NASA's spacecraft is slated to take pictures of the asteroid's surface and shed light on its composition, over the course of about two years.
Perhaps this view explains his decision to forsake previous rounds of talks over Iran’s nuclear program and wage a full-scale assault on the country.
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Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
9 Apr. 2026
If bigger and better opportunities come along, striking while the iron is hot is a logical course of action, even when moves sometimes appear to make more sense for financial reasons than footballing ones and forsaking the comfort of operating in a stable environment.
As those commitments are abandoned, there’s a financial price to pay, including more than $9 billion of write-downs for Honda, which made its first operating loss in the company’s history.
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Jonathan M. Gitlin,
ArsTechnica,
15 May 2026
Famously, many migration projects end up in some sort of failure—behind schedule, over budget, incomplete or abandoned.
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