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Adjective
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Those late audits have caused ongoing comments by engaged residents who are perplexed that year after year the town’s government is not able to provide the same audit the state’s other 168 municipalities complete and submit to the public and the state’s budget office.—
Kevin Rennie,
Hartford Courant,
10 Jan. 2026 -
Guiliani said her students have been more engaged and focused.—
Ryan Hughes,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The beverage likely came from Jamaica, influenced by the island’s rum production.—
Jasmine Smith,
Southern Living,
12 Jan. 2026
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The way light is influenced doesn't just allow objects to be seen at great distances via light amplification, but also tells scientists a great deal about the way mass is distributed within the lensing system itself.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
12 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The original is quite preoccupied with this brutal torture situation and the parallel police investigation.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Jan. 2026
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Privately, some tell me that the best-case scenario might be Washington getting bogged down in Venezuela, too preoccupied to focus on new targets.—
Oliver Stuenkel,
Time,
9 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Prosecutors allege DeAndre Booker, 33, killed Elkins, 30, at his Roseville apartment and then disposed of her body.—
Joseph Buczek,
CBS News,
7 Jan. 2026
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Just as with dumps on land, all kinds of waste was being disposed of in rivers, lakes and harbors.—
James Salzman,
The Conversation,
5 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The nine occupied residences are uninhabitable following the fire.—
Caelyn Pender,
Mercury News,
11 Jan. 2026
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Sharif’s fate in the 1948 segment should not be revealed when discussing Dabis’ film, which then moves forward 30 years, with the adult Salim (Saleh Bakri) married to Hanan in the occupied West Bank.—
Tim Grierson,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Humans tend to synchronize with each other, which means that when someone smiles at you, you’ll be inclined to smile back.—
Angela Haupt,
Time,
9 Jan. 2026
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Neither of them were criminally inclined.—
Johnny Dodd,
PEOPLE,
8 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The absorbed or scattered light creates a unique pattern called the spectrum, which is effectively the substance’s fingerprint.—
Ambuj Tewari,
The Conversation,
6 Mar. 2025
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Although the mercury hovered at only 5°, all of us became so absorbed in the rabbit chase that no one noticed numb toes and cold ears.—
Erwin A. Bauer,
Outdoor Life,
25 Dec. 2024
Verb
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Simpson is a Miami target, according to 247Sports, and the Hurricanes previously convinced Ward and Beck to back out of the draft and play for UM instead.—
Adam Lichtenstein,
Sun Sentinel,
12 Jan. 2026
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While Block is in the fourth grade, after his family moves from Indiana to Texas, his mother withdraws him from school, convinced that a traditional academic environment will stifle his budding writerly gifts.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
12 Jan. 2026
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“Prepossessed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prepossessed. Accessed 15 Jan. 2026.
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