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as in refining
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as in reprocessing
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Armed with the insights gleaned from Go and Fresh, Amazon is refining and expanding its new five-store, small format Whole Foods Market Daily Shop, which will serve as a mini-convenience store.—
Phil Wahba,
Fortune,
29 Jan. 2026 -
But for African governments, the central challenge is realizing ambitions to move beyond only exporting raw minerals to processing and refining them, too.—
Yinka Adegoke,
semafor.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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Lines have formed for the bathroom, and protesters are routinely filtering in and out of the store to escape the cold.—
Stephen Gruber-Miller,
Des Moines Register,
27 Jan. 2026
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Instead of just filtering by age or distance, the system weighs emotional compatibility, conflict styles, and expectations around commitment to suggest a smaller set of matches with higher odds of genuine chemistry.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Jan. 2026
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Thankfully, this week's episode wasted no time in rectifying that, and the Croissants were unmasked at the top of the evening.—
Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 Jan. 2026
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But Rams defensive lineman Kobie Turner said rectifying those mistakes is something that can be addressed on Sunday.—
Steve Reed,
Baltimore Sun,
11 Jan. 2026
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Each unit’s weekly cleaning regimen includes completely emptying the waste with the vacuum truck’s suction wand, adding deodorizer that breaks down future waste and mitigates bad smells, scrubbing and disinfecting every surface inside the unit, and restocking paper goods.—
Tom Huddleston Jr.
Mickey Todiwala,
CNBC,
24 Jan. 2026
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But not before Freddy applies an earlier safety lesson about harmful chemical cleaning products to subdue the suddenly menacing unicorn.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Jan. 2026
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Rather than clarifying events surrounding Epstein's death, the footage appears to complicate the official narrative, and contradicts some prior statements about the prison's surveillance system.—
Daniel Ruetenik,
CBS News,
31 Dec. 2025
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The death certificates for Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner are clarifying the timeline of their deaths.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 Dec. 2025
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In most cases, the record holders agree to be interviewed, distilling years of experience into fairly shallow platitudes — pithy advice Green finds understandably unsatisfying.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
23 Jan. 2026
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The Englishman John French developed a scalable industrial method of production in 1651, although other peoples were already well on their way with production before this—for example, the Irish were distilling whiskey in 1405.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Jan. 2026
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Crews continue to work in the crash site around Grade Lane, just south of Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport, hauling away contaminated soil, purifying water and repairing roadways.—
Stephanie Stremplewski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
14 Jan. 2026
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For example, those that change the cooling solution or solvent, which is typically used in the process of separating and purifying nuclear materials.—
Tasmin Lockwood,
CNBC,
6 Dec. 2025
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But extracting them and refining them is the difficult part.—
John Towfighi,
CNN Money,
11 Jan. 2026
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Olive oil is made by crushing olives and extracting their liquids.—
Kirsten Nunez,
Martha Stewart,
10 Jan. 2026
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“Processing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/processing. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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