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Recent Examples of regrindAnd, of course, no knife is perfect, so many owners will regrind the blade to meet their personal specifications.—New Atlas, 9 Nov. 2025
When Galvin went to the South Elgin Police Department on May 8 to file a missing person report, she was told her daughter was probably a runaway.
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Gloria Casas,
Chicago Tribune,
9 May 2026
The state had filed a motion to join the two cases for a single trial, which the trial court granted on the grounds the evidence in each case would be cross admissible, the high court ruling says.
Software and computer systems design payrolls have been grinding lower recently, as have those of computer and electronics manufacturers.
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Jim Edwards,
Fortune,
6 May 2026
Garbage disposals can grind small pieces of food and granules; however, large, hard and fibrous foods will cause clogs and residue over time in the disposal.
The secret to staying polished on hot, sticky summer days?
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Jacquelyn McGilvray,
PEOPLE,
6 May 2026
While rivals like the Tacoma and Colorado constantly reinvent themselves, Nissan tends to take the long road by refining, tweaking, and polishing instead of blowing everything up every few years.
Not to be missed: the steamed crab with glutinous rice, the grains lightly glossed with pork fat, studded with sweet morsels of crab and perfumed with the alluring aroma of wok hei, that smoky kiss from cooking with intense heat.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 Apr. 2026
The easy-to-use glossing treatment, which should be applied to damp hair and followed by a blow dryer to activate the frizz-fighting alpha acids, is a semi-permanent smoothing spray that basically creates a water-resistant shield to prevent flyaways—even in the most humid of places.
But those comparisons won’t do The White Lotus any favors, since Beef is more effective than that series’ second and third seasons in interrogating how exclusive locations sharpen class differences.
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Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
4 May 2026
Getting up to sharpen the pencils is part of the meditative act for me.