as in loads
a considerable amount
a degree in that field would give you a plateful of possibilities for a career
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Because the engine can be controlled during flight, the system does not require the expensive thermal protection systems typically associated with extreme heat loads at hypersonic speeds.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Feb. 2026 -
Steyer has loads of his own money to spend on TV ads.—
George Skelton,
Mercury News,
25 Feb. 2026
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At the 127,000-square-foot facility, upward of 275,000 tons of material are expected to be recycled per year.—
Megan Vaz,
Sun Sentinel,
24 Feb. 2026
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After the Cold War ended, storage basins attached to the K reactors were reused to hold about 2,300 tons of highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel underwater.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Feb. 2026
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The Liberty Justice Center was preparing to challenge the unprecedented use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to unilaterally impose the tariffs — and after speaking with dozens of other small businesses, the group selected Schwartz as the lead plaintiff.—
Elisabeth Buchwald,
CNN Money,
21 Feb. 2026
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The Second Chance Business Coalition now includes dozens of major employers nationwide, all dedicated to sharing best practices and expanding fair chance hiring.—
Curtis Reed,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Feb. 2026
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The city still lay in ruin, filled with piles of rubble and half-destroyed buildings.—
Nicholas Lemann,
New Yorker,
21 Feb. 2026
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Behold his corpse presented in front of two enormous piles of bottles, as green and resplendent as Christmas trees.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
21 Feb. 2026
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Responding to 911 calls of a disorderly crowd jumping from and throwing objects off the bathroom roof, officers were relentlessly pelted with snowballs and ice chunks at close range that landed two in the hospital with head and face injuries.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
26 Feb. 2026
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More than 200,000 Bay Staters remained in the dark Tuesday evening, with MEMA’s power outage map showing large chunks of Barnstable and Plymouth counties greatly affected.—
Lance Reynolds,
Boston Herald,
24 Feb. 2026
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Now they’ve simply been handed over to the public, along with enormous quantities of semi-redacted material spanning decades and provenances.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2026
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The pair returned in Big Bubble form during April 2025 but was released in highly limited quantities, making the upcoming rerelease the most accessible Neon Air Max 95 OG drop yet.—
Riley Jones,
Footwear News,
22 Feb. 2026
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Speaking on behalf of hundreds of thousands of filmmakers worldwide.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
22 Feb. 2026
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Talarico Positions Himself as Underdog Speaking last week at the University of North Texas in Denton before hundreds of supporters, Talarico cast himself as the underdog in the race.—
Jack Fink,
CBS News,
22 Feb. 2026
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The unsold cars are now piling up on the dealer lots.—
Stephen Moore,
Boston Herald,
26 Feb. 2026
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The bill would allow homes to be built on lots as small as 1,200 square feet and limit local zoning control over setbacks and density.—
Susannah Bryan,
Sun Sentinel,
25 Feb. 2026
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“Platefuls.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/platefuls. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.
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