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By including co-chairs from both parties and requiring a bipartisan majority for approval, a commission could lend more credibility to essential reforms, the report argued.—
Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
19 Feb. 2026 -
As the Cubs welcomed players from Nippon Professional Baseball — and managed relationships with their families, agents and support staff — Masamoto’s background provided some credibility and reassurance.—
Brendan Kuty,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2026
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Epistemia is a name for a flaw in how people interpret these models, in which linguistic plausibility is taken as a surrogate for truth.—
Walter Quattrociocchi,
Scientific American,
18 Feb. 2026
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Haunting and influential, Black Christmas is all the more terrifying due to the plausibility of the fears expressed.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Jan. 2026
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Though López is still seeking a second opinion, there’s a strong likelihood his season is finished, a damaging blow to the Twins’ hopes of rebounding from two straight losing seasons.—
Dan Hayes,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2026
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The Baltimore area’s forecast this week calls for mild temperatures and an increasing likelihood of rain, plus a chance of snow.—
Baltimore Sun staff,
Baltimore Sun,
18 Feb. 2026
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Prior to Wednesday, speculators had been fairly balanced in their view of whether a 25-basis-point cut would come at the FOMC’s next meeting in March, giving it a probability of around 40%, per CME’s FedWatch barometer.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
17 Feb. 2026
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The probability of lightning strikes rises as a thunderstorm approaches and peaks when the storm is directly above.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
17 Feb. 2026
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