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Investor response to the launch was notably restrained compared with the shockwaves triggered by DeepSeek’s earlier R1 model.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Apr. 2026 -
Two onlookers actually ran up to the squad car Davis was being put into and had to be briefly restrained by officers.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
25 Apr. 2026
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Lawyers and doctors can lose their licenses to practice, insider traders can be barred from the financial industry, public officials stripped of committee assignments, and dangerous speeding drivers should have their bad habit curbed.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
26 Apr. 2026
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Sirota said Medicaid and HCPF staff worked to give legislators information on where costs were increasing and how those costs could be curbed.—
Seth Klamann,
Denver Post,
16 Apr. 2026
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Funds left on the table The price tag for the new pipe and pump system was another issue locals and council members balked at, but the plan already accounted for most of the funding.—
Ashley Miznazi,
Miami Herald,
28 Apr. 2026
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If Democrats have balked at MAHA’s rejection of vaccines, battling glyphosate has a chance of locking in the movement’s wider base of support.—
Nancy Walecki,
The Atlantic,
27 Apr. 2026
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The frameworks that have long constrained the industry now supply much of the architecture agentic governance requires.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Fortune,
2 May 2026
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Today, roughly half of the global ethylene and polyethylene supply is stranded, constrained, or directly affected by the halt to commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz — a crucial transit point for 20% of the world’s crude.—
Susanne Rust,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2026
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The court issued a ruling that limits consideration of race in drawing voting maps — potentially a boon for Republicans, who have been hampered by the civil rights law in their attempt to redraw maps in Louisiana, Alabama and other states.—
Matthew Choi,
Washington Post,
30 Apr. 2026
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Connor McDavid looked ordinary at best, clearly hampered by his injury.—
Shayna Goldman,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2026
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This shall not be impeded by the cessation of hostilities.—
Yarden Segev,
NBC news,
16 Apr. 2026
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Robert Brulle, a visiting professor at Brown University who studies fossil fuel lobbying, said ExxonMobil led efforts to discredit climate science that successfully impeded government intervention.—
Alex Kuffner,
USA Today,
15 Apr. 2026
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Nearly 9 in 10 workers said burnout has hindered their productivity.—
Jessica Guynn,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2026
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Rams boss Les Snead and Chiefs leadership tandem Andy Reid and Brett Veach don’t seem hindered by obstacles either, despite later draft slots and paying future Hall of Fame quarterbacks.—
Tim Graham,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026
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Sable’s shares fell 61% in 2025 as its years long effort to restart oil production at a cluster of rigs off the coast of California was stymied by local and state-level opposition.—
Bloomberg,
Oc Register,
1 May 2026
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Initially stymied by the pandemic in 2020, it was revived two years later and there had been nothing in the country like it.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Apr. 2026
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“Reined.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reined. Accessed 4 May. 2026.
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