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Recent Examples of pleachPool Garden Linden trees are pleached and underplanted with liriope, while boxwood hedges frame pink annuals.—Owen Holmes, House Beautiful, 23 Mar. 2023
Princess Charlotte, also 10, is known to plait her hair back with a braid on each side of her head, with the braids then tied with a ribbon or woven into a longer braid, also tied with a bow.
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Janine Henni,
People.com,
21 July 2025
If your stylist is plaiting your hair too tightly, be vocal and ask them to ease up.
The boom has long passed and the route is now plied by the Ferrobús, which vaguely resembles a coach on rails and follows a truncated route between Oruro and the town of Villazón on the Argentine border.
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The Editors,
Outside,
31 Aug. 2025
Canada will host the FIFA World Cup in 2026, and the country’s biggest soccer star, Alphonso Davies, currently plies his trade in the Bundesliga, playing for powerhouse Bayern Munich.
SkyMed follows the triumphs and tribulations of young medics and pilots who fly air ambulances across the remote skies of Northern Canada, weaving together intense journeys with jaw-dropping medical rescues 20,000 feet in the air in the most remote conditions.
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Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
2 Sep. 2025
Editor Kirk Baxter also received praise for weaving together the film’s three parts, which show different points of view over the course of the same 20 minutes of action.
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