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Ben Bridge Jeweler currently has 36 retail stores predominately in the western United States, including official Rolex boutiques in Seattle, San Diego and Honolulu.
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Anthony Demarco, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Bridgewater has played 10 seasons in the NFL, predominately with the Minnesota Vikings, who he was selected by in the first round of the 2014 NFL Draft.
—Paulina Dedaj, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2025
According to the Connecticut Data Collaborative and Liberal Arts Action Lab, north Hartford is a predominately African American community in Hartford.
—Julianna D’addona, Hartford Courant, 27 July 2025
On the east side of the 101 was East Palo Alto, which was predominately Black.
—David Kushner, Rolling Stone, 20 July 2025
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Anthony Demarco, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Bridgewater has played 10 seasons in the NFL, predominately with the Minnesota Vikings, who he was selected by in the first round of the 2014 NFL Draft.
—Paulina Dedaj, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2025
According to the Connecticut Data Collaborative and Liberal Arts Action Lab, north Hartford is a predominately African American community in Hartford.
—Julianna D’addona, Hartford Courant, 27 July 2025
On the east side of the 101 was East Palo Alto, which was predominately Black.
—David Kushner, Rolling Stone, 20 July 2025
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In 1977, a neo-Nazi group called the National Socialist Party of America applied for a permit to march through Skokie, Illinois, a predominantly Jewish, Chicago suburb.—
Scott Simon,
NPR,
27 Sep. 2025
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The blue jay/green jay hybrid, a male offspring of a green jay mother and a blue jay father, has predominantly blue feathers, but exhibits black coloring on its face, similar to that of a green jay.—
Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
26 Sep. 2025
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The 5-star analyst mainly noted lucrative prospects in agentic security for CrowdStrike and the evolution of its agentic security operations center (SOC).—
TipRanks.com Staff,
CNBC,
28 Sep. 2025
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For 70 years, three families — the Joneses, the Hoppers, and the Creagers — battled for influence, mainly to score the coveted county jobs locals depended on for income, regularly accusing one another of corruption and election rigging.—
Mitch Moxley,
Rolling Stone,
27 Sep. 2025
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The Uncut Gems star and wife Jackie tied the knot back in 2003, and have been tight-knit ever since, keeping their personal life mostly private while turning many of their film projects into family affairs.—
Bailey Richards,
PEOPLE,
1 Oct. 2025
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In October 2011, during the peak of Glee, Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk debuted a horror series that eventually broke ground as the first anthology to reinvent itself each season with a brand-new story, setting, and characters played by (mostly) familiar faces.—
James Mercadante,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 Oct. 2025
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Listeria monocytogenes, or Lm, is a bacterium that causes listeriosis, a serious infection that primarily affects older adults, individuals with weakened immune systems, pregnant women and their newborns.—
Amaris Encinas,
USA Today,
26 Sep. 2025
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However, the project’s current strengths are primarily systems integration and ambition.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Sep. 2025
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However, accessibility largely depends on policy, and tuition typically ranges from $5,000 to $10,000 a year.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
28 Sep. 2025
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It’s largely set on the gloomy campus of Stoneridge College, and brings Moreno-Garcia’s signature horror skills to the dark academia genre.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
27 Sep. 2025
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However, surging production, led principally by Chinese mining companies, had cratered the price to a nine-year low, leading the DRC to impose the restrictions and in turn drawing ire from producers.—
Jeronimo Gonzalez,
semafor.com,
23 Sep. 2025
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By drawing his understanding of the king principally from Harvey’s travelogue, and likely a string of others produced in the English-speaking world, Welles ended up making his career promoting what was merely another caricature of an actual person, a historical figure, and an important one at that.—
Marlene L. Daut
September 22,
Literary Hub,
22 Sep. 2025
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The traffic itself generally keeps moving rather than fully stopping.—
Eric D. Lawrence,
USA Today,
28 Sep. 2025
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To qualify, the applicant must generally hold a bachelor’s degree or higher and perform a job that requires specialized knowledge.—
Syra Ortiz Blanes,
Miami Herald,
26 Sep. 2025
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Max & Helen’s is chiefly inspired by Maine’s Palace Diner, which is widely noted for its elevation of comfort-food staples.—
Gary Baum,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Sep. 2025
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This evolved into a prototype chiefly engineered by Burrell Smith, selecting for its CPU the 8-bit Motorola 6809 as an upgrade from the Apple II's MOS 6502 but still keeping costs low.—
Cameron Kaiser,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Predominately.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predominately. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.
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