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.
Nike’s experimented with other applications such as mules and tennis shoes, but the results were mocked if not downright disastrous.
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Ian Servantes,
Footwear News,
29 Sep. 2026
Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update mocked Donald Trump‘s actions while hosting his Chinese counterpart for a three-day state visit, as well as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth‘s transphobic military mantra.
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William Vaillancourt,
Rolling Stone,
27 Sep. 2026
Taking the opportunity to swipe at Ukraine, the Russian president on Wednesday derided Kyiv’s reliance on financial assistance from its Western allies.
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Zahra Ullah,
CNN Money,
1 Oct. 2026
In an op-ed for Food & Wine last November, restaurateur John Winterman derided the book’s effect on guest behavior.
At the sectarian level, Baptists ridiculed Quakers, Presbyterians oppressed Anabaptists.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Sep. 2026
Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem had been ridiculed by lawmakers for a costly $220 million ad featuring her on horseback warning against immigrating to the United States illegally.
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Molly Parks,
The Washington Examiner,
24 Sep. 2026
The slow exchange with oxygen is imitated with micro-oxygenation technology — essentially, blowing bubbles through the wine.
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Peter Hahn,
Fortune,
29 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.
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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