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Louisville would probably look quite different if the founder of Brown-Forman never became the first whiskey maker to bottle and seal his liquor.—
Maggie Menderski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
26 Oct. 2025 -
Sports betting is probably as old as sports itself.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
25 Oct. 2025
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While historians long theorized that foul play may have played a role in the death of the ruler, more recent DNA analysis suggests that Tutankhamen likely died from a combination of malaria and a bone disorder, per Live Science.—
Toria Sheffield,
PEOPLE,
2 Nov. 2025
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As the boundaries between global prestige and domestic performance blur, 2026 will likely see deeper integration between international fashion calendars and China’s digital economy.—
Li Jun,
Footwear News,
2 Nov. 2025
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Video showed the brother-in-law allegedly taking part in an effort to remove Dominguez campaign signs and replace them with signs for Karlton.—
Aaron Leibowitz,
Miami Herald,
5 Nov. 2025
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McKinney’s company was recently suspended from the city's demolition program for allegedly filling sites with contaminated dirt obtained from the redevelopment of Northland Mall.—
Violet Ikonomova,
Freep.com,
5 Nov. 2025
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The team got two first-round picks and Kenny Clark back in the transaction, but with just days remaining before the NFL trade deadline, Jerry Jones' purportedly crucial run-stopper is a firm trade candidate.—
Max Dible,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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Longo, a onetime satanist in the 1800s who was among seven new saints canonized this month by Pope Leo XIV, was an attorney whose foray into the occult purportedly led him to promise his soul to a demon.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA Today,
30 Oct. 2025
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From Snickers to Reese's to Twix, one of America's favorite indulgences is getting more expensive, as tariffs, inflation and high cocoa prices squeeze profit margins and customers' pocketbooks, possibly leading to fewer chocolate bars landing in trick-or-treat buckets this year.—
Luke Fountain,
CNBC,
31 Oct. 2025
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Despite her busy Showgirl rollout — and possibly wedding planning — the singer has been present at many of Kelce’s home games this season.—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
31 Oct. 2025
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But perhaps some of it had to do with precisely this feeling of poignancy that seeing me would have engendered in him.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Nov. 2025
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But the physical being would be transformed, and perhaps the soul, which didn’t go its separate way but was always a co-conspirator with the body.—
James Marcus,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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The estate reportedly overlooked the legal issue during script approval, forcing extensive reshoots in March 2025.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
6 Nov. 2025
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The show, which was slated to be carried live by the network and stream on Peacock, has reportedly been shelved in order to allow Snoop to focus on his gig as a Winter Olympics correspondent.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Presumedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/presumedly. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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