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Earlier this month, a federal immigration agent was charged with two counts of second-degree assault by a county prosecutor in Minnesota amid investigations into the actions of several officers during the immigration crackdown in the Minneapolis area.—
Shelly Bradbury,
Denver Post,
23 Apr. 2026 -
Federal investigations, as well as CNN interviews with former law enforcement officials, have revealed security failures and a lack of accountability over what transpired at the Butler rally.—
Harmeet Kaur,
CNN Money,
23 Apr. 2026
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Conservative influencers are pushing for a return to the dark days of 1950s inquisitions.—
Ali Breland,
The Atlantic,
6 Mar. 2026
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McCullum generally leaves in-match inquisitions to his loyal lieutenants, Marcus Trescothick and Jeetan Patel.—
Paul Newman,
New York Times,
8 Jan. 2026
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Leveraging this method has long been awaited by cosmologists, but only in recent years has data for both the CMB and for large-scale structure surveys become robust enough to yield a meaningful result like this.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
21 Apr. 2026
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The party began the surveys out of concern that Democrats could be shut out of the governor’s race because of California’s unique primary system, where the top two vote-getters in the June 2 primary move on to the November general election regardless of political party.—
Seema Mehta,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Apr. 2026
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Only candidates that complete the questionnaires will be interviewed for endorsements at the AFL-CIO convention on June 25 and 26.—
Mark Pazniokas,
Hartford Courant,
19 Apr. 2026
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They were given questionnaires with specific questions to respond.—
Nancy Cutler,
USA Today,
15 Apr. 2026
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More than four years after the team publicly floated the idea of downtown baseball, the project has been defined more by its twists and turns than its resolutions — and included explorations outside downtown and even in Kansas.—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
22 Apr. 2026
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Later came stints as a paralegal, explorations of investment banking, and a brush with entrepreneurship.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
21 Apr. 2026
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Having heard of the fruitful researches carried on by you last year on the hitherto little understood properties of water surfaces.—
Mariel Carr,
Scientific American,
20 Mar. 2026
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The feminine advantage, beginning with the first spoken word, increases with age, according to recent researches in the language development of preschool children, girls being first to employ phrases and using longer sentences.—
Tyler Estep,
AJC.com,
27 Feb. 2026
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While 10,000 steps has long been promoted as a daily goal, studies have shown that many health benefits—especially for older adults—can occur at lower step counts.—
MD Published,
Verywell Health,
11 Apr. 2026
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What Indonesia needs right now is not more studies confirming our potential.—
Pandu Sjahrir,
Fortune,
11 Apr. 2026
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Daejeon officials released social media videos showing rescuers pulling the limp wolf from a ditch and placing it in a carrier, and the animal undergoing medical examinations at the zoo.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
17 Apr. 2026
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The findings, a year in the making, represent one of the most self-critical examinations any elite university has publicly undertaken.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
15 Apr. 2026
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“Questionings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/questionings. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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