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Fans who watched the series will notice the musical follows the plot of season 1 fairly closely, with most of the book — penned by Cinco Paul, who co-created the series with Ken Daurio — lifted nearly verbatim from the six-episode series and condensed into a two-and-a-half-hour evening.—
Dave Quinn,
PEOPLE,
21 Apr. 2026 -
Based on the novel entitled The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman, Bier directed a script penned by Akiva Goldsman and Georgia Pritchett.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Apr. 2026
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The paper was scrawled with phone numbers of politicians to call and driving distances to dialysis centers in the region.—
Arielle Zionts,
NPR,
15 Apr. 2026
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The post stitched together photos of Bible scripture, Paul crying, pain relief patches and personal notes scrawled through notebooks.—
Emily St. Martin,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Apr. 2026
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Wynaendts gave Europe a grade of one on a scale of one-to-ten on fulfilling the recommendations in the Draghi EU Competitiveness Report authored by Mario Draghi, the former European Central Bank president.—
Steve Gelsi,
semafor.com,
16 Apr. 2026
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The bill was authored by Assemblymembers Josh Hoover, a Republican representing Folsom; Al Muratsuchi, a Democrat representing Torrance; Josh Lowenthal, a Democrat representing Long Beach; and Buffy Wicks, a Democrat representing Oakland.—
Molly Gibbs,
Mercury News,
16 Apr. 2026
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The bodies, along with that of his six-month pregnant daughter-in-law, arrived in wooden coffins on a bus from Lebanon, their names scribbled on the sides.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
11 Apr. 2026
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Another video shared on Instagram, presumably taken at an earlier point, shows the same bot rumbling along to deliver some food with the same graffiti scribbled on its exterior.—
Joe Wilkins Published Mar 19,
Futurism,
19 Mar. 2026
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“Penciled (in).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/penciled%20%28in%29. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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