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The honors will be doled out at a gala on June 28.—
Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Apr. 2026 -
Enormous signing bonuses were doled out to secure the services of superstar golfers Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, Cameron Smith, Bryson DeChambeau and Rahm.—
Steve Henson,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Apr. 2026
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Opponents have distributed campaign materials citing past statements from Obama and Spanberger criticizing gerrymandering, but those were before Trump pushed Republican states to redraw their congressional maps in advance of this year's midterms.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
21 Apr. 2026
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The rear ramp can handle about 70,500 pounds per load, so payloads must be distributed across multiple pallets.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Apr. 2026
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Tickets to the conference and luncheon, scheduled for Saturday, April 25 at the president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, will once again be largely allocated to those with the most $TRUMP coins, but the price to acquire them has become significantly cheaper.—
Jack Kubinec,
Fortune,
23 Apr. 2026
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Since 2020, the Department of Defense (DOD) has allocated more than $439 million to domestic REE processing and magnet manufacturing projects.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
22 Apr. 2026
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Ernesto was an activist who dispensed food and medicine in Salvadoran refugee camps.—
Menika Dirkson,
The Conversation,
8 Apr. 2026
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The need for the list took on new urgency in 2012, when more than 60 people died from fungal meningitis infections contracted from a drug produced at a compounding facility and dispensed to hundreds of people.—
Anjeanette Damon,
ProPublica,
3 Apr. 2026
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The accelerator, funded by the Japan Creator Support Fund under the Agency for Cultural Affairs and administered by Japan Arts Council, ran a lab of 14 fellows with international mentors before selecting five projects for a dedicated industry showcase.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
21 Apr. 2026
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In 1943, the United States government administered a questionnaire to people of Japanese descent who had been confined to wartime concentration camps in California, Idaho, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, and Arkansas.—
Hua Hsu,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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Evenings can be entirely your own—cooking in-villa, lighting the pizza oven—or handed over to in-house chefs, with plans underway for visiting chefs and intimate supper clubs that draw on the Sunshine Coast’s flourishing farm-to-table scene.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 Apr. 2026
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Blindfolded once again, I was loaded into one vehicle, then transferred to another, and finally handed over to the official Iraqi-government forces, who took me to Baghdad’s Green Zone, where the president of Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council, Faiq Zaidan, was waiting for me.—
Shelly Kittleson,
The Atlantic,
23 Apr. 2026
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While no one is necessarily in the wrong here, a conflict of interest between fans and the club is a troubling symptom of an unhealthy organisation, and there is blame to be apportioned to the decision-makers whose mistakes have led Spurs to this juncture.—
Dan Kilpatrick,
New York Times,
30 Jan. 2026
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Packed with plenty of tech, the standard Honda 9-inch infotainment system is utilized in our Civic Hatchback Hybrid Sport Touring and was easy to use as the color display was simple and nicely apportioned for all age ranges.—
Marc D. Grasso,
Boston Herald,
11 Sep. 2025
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Scalping tickets wasn’t new, of course, but Kahn believed that its formalization online provided sports teams, and other entertainment businesses, with valuable information about demand that could enable them to make more money without alienating their most loyal fans.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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But the endorsement in a safe Democratic district is unlikely to attract the major expenditures and outreach that UNITE HERE has provided in battleground states and districts.—
Mark Pazniokas,
Hartford Courant,
19 Apr. 2026
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“Plied (with).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plied%20%28with%29. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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