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The significance of the reader/viewer as an active recipient of media messages contests notions of audiences passively accepting the hegemonic discourses channeled through the media.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
5 May 2026 -
By the mid-1960s, the school, located in the center of Harlem, was among the few schools in the United States to publish a yearbook directly engaged with the civil rights and Black Power discourses of the era.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Nov. 2025
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Through their discussions, and the essays and stories that they were assigned to write each week, Heidi came to know her students’ pain.—
Nicholas Dawidoff,
New Yorker,
10 May 2026
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The Taurus Sun forms a supportive sextile to Jupiter in your 3rd House of Communication, giving negotiations, outreach, and practical discussions unusual traction.—
Tarot.com,
New York Daily News,
10 May 2026
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Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.—
Rob Wile,
NBC news,
28 Apr. 2026
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News articles and photos of the casual picnic enamored Americans, transforming their view of the royals as rigid and aristocratic to more down-to-earth.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2026
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But studies like this can influence whether patients feel like hope is worth chasing.—
Kathi Rigby,
The Orlando Sentinel,
10 May 2026
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De la Sanch, an assistant professor of environmental science and studies at DePaul University, suggests the reemergence and spread of novel viruses like hantaviruses may be due to climate change, deforestation and urbanization.—
Allison Kiehl,
Chicago Tribune,
9 May 2026
Noun
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District residents have been blanketed with anti-Bores mailers and texts.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
7 May 2026
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Cut down on fielding pesky calls and texts by exploring options to block them.—
Becca Stanek,
TheWeek,
7 May 2026
Noun
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Their displacement, whether to touristed shorelines, museums, or expositions, effaced much of their meaning.—
Glenn Adamson,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
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Iowa State Fair — Mid-August The Iowa State Fair in Des Moines pulls in more than a million people each year and is one of the oldest and largest agricultural and industrial expositions in the country.—
Lauren Schuster,
Charlotte Observer,
30 Apr. 2026
Noun
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In these essays, our columnists follow their curiosity, and explore important but not necessarily answerable scientific questions.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
8 May 2026
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Students who rely on AI to write essays and solve problems are not learning to think, and that is a long-term risk to California’s workforce and civic life.—
Jemma Stephenson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 May 2026
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Skyhorse has since published a dozen or so books by Kennedy, including a memoir and several more anti-vaccine treatises.—
Tom Bartlett,
The Atlantic,
5 Apr. 2026
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The text consists of 10 treatises on architecture, engineering and urban planning, and is the oldest surviving work written on the subject.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Prolegomena.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prolegomena. Accessed 11 May. 2026.
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