The sheriff’s simmering anger, which reaches boiling point as a result of Eddington’s growing air of claustrophobia and his own loosening grip on his life, leads to Cross assassinating Garcia.
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David Sims,
The Atlantic,
23 July 2025
The simmering public response about Zilberstein’s ruling was enough to provoke a partial retraction.
The veggies are parboiled until bright green and tender-crisp.
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Southern Living Editors,
Southern Living,
22 Feb. 2024
The mottled beans that are parboiled and salted, the toxic pokeweed cooked into tasty greens, the dumplings wrapped in hickory leaves and tied with stalks of rush — these, like the milkies, are meant to be shared.
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Jacey Fortin Mike Belleme,
New York Times,
21 Oct. 2023
Armenians boiled your parchment skin to make yellow umber
for silk and wool.
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Peter Balakian,
New Yorker,
14 July 2025
By crushing bones and boiling them to extract grease, Neanderthals tapped into a rich energy source, using techniques once thought to belong only to much later human groups.
In a surprising move, Cognition– the makers of autonomous coding tool Devin— acquired what was left of its rival Windsurf after the company’s cofounders Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen and other staff members were poached by Google DeepMind for $2.4 billion to improve Gemini’s coding abilities.
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Rashi Shrivastava,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
Aside from global trade wars, Khan’s promotion comes after one of the company’s AI darlings was poached by Meta.
The White House has been stewing since the paper ran a story last week claiming Trump sent Epstein a bawdy yet cryptic note for the late financier’s 50th birthday in 2003.
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Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
22 July 2025
The whisky offers aromas of seasoned wood, stewed fruit, caramelized banana, and nutmeg.
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