Detectives drained three dams, searched six mineshafts and sent up drones with specialized cameras to take detailed imagery, later analyzed with artificial intelligence.
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Hilary Whiteman,
CNN Money,
20 Sep. 2026
On today's flight, the GSLV Mark II sent up EOS-05, a 5,218-pound (2367 kilograms) satellite designed to study our planet from a very high perch.
Afroman went on to publish songs and music videos taunting the deputies, including one called Lemon Pound Cake that mocked the portly deputy for his apparent interest in the cake.
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Andrew Graham,
Sacbee.com,
22 Sep. 2026
Trump has mocked French President Emmanuel Macron in speeches.
In an op-ed for Food & Wine last November, restaurateur John Winterman derided the book’s effect on guest behavior.
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Adam Reiner,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
3 Sep. 2026
Even the Barbie doll, while often derided for promoting an unhealthy body image for developing children, offered girls a glimpse of a different future than as a wife and mother, Kimmel argues.
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Andrew Silow-Carroll,
Sun Sentinel,
31 Aug. 2026
The White House announced the arcade on X with several animations that parodied older gaming logos like Xbox and brands like Sega.
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Kimberlee Speakman,
PEOPLE,
4 Sep. 2026
Jules Dassin’s Rififi (1955) and Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing (1956) further refined the formula, while a number of decidedly sillier capers in the ’60s both parodied and advanced the genre, helping set the stage for the modern Ocean’s movies.
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Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
3 Sep. 2026
Other would-be demonyms, such as Unisian, United Statesian and United Statian, were similarly ridiculed.
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Harmeet Kaur,
CNN Money,
10 Sep. 2026
Paris’ Eiffel Tower, for instance, was ridiculed for decades before becoming arguably one of the most iconic and well-loved pieces of architecture in the world.
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Colette Davidson,
Christian Science Monitor,
1 Sep. 2026
This succinct statement follows outpourings of both support and criticism of Sims, including additional allegations that YISE has imitated other beauty brands—the very thing Sims was lamenting.
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Marci Robin,
Allure,
21 Sep. 2026
The ads imitated sponsored search ads used by legitimate banks.
The falseness of the medium, though, jibed with the falseness of most attempts, throughout American history, to make sense of this enormous, strange man.
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Christopher Hooks,
Harpers Magazine,
23 June 2026
This forced the British to make jibes to get down to the bottom of the course while the Americans jibed just once, and that was the deciding factor in securing what went on to be an easy victory.
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