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sallied

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past tense of sally

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And a major academic publisher, Elsevier, reported submissions to its journals jumped about 68% from 2021 to 2025.

— TODD WALLACK THE WASHINGTON POST, Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2026
The skydivers — including Rutz — jumped from a plane and held each other’s hands Friday morning.

— Iris Kwok Follow Nov. 6, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2026

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Junior safety Taylor Davis delivered a punishing hit on Hayes, who was tackled short of the goal line, preserving KU’s 13-0 halftime lead.

— Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 5 Nov. 2026
So far, the Central Park Conservancy and the NYPD have tackled those threats with an ineffectual combination of pleading, finger-wagging, and a few tickets a week.

— Justin Davidson, Curbed, 5 Nov. 2026

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His voice, captured on an iPhone microphone, is strikingly deep, a rumble beneath McDoom’s sweetly lilting delivery.

— Emma Madden, Pitchfork, 4 Nov. 2026
And in Georgia, Democrats captured a governorship in a premier presidential swing state in Tuesday's midterm elections, winning the governor's office for the first time since 1998.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 4 Nov. 2026

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Acton has assailed Ramaswamy for not committing to selling off his investments in tech and AI stocks, calling these holdings a conflict of interest.

— Naomi Nix, Time, 29 Oct. 2026
Democratic and Republican lawmakers assailed the diesel deal, which came a month after Trump signed a bill to impose tariffs on countries that import Russian oil.

— The Week US, TheWeek, 19 Oct. 2026

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Anthropic said Claude can explain unfamiliar financial terms, such as annual percentage rates (APR), and calculate the interest charged across connected accounts.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2026
The first movie, also written and directed by Takashi Yamazaki, charged its way to $57 domestically, becoming the biggest live-action Japanese movie in North America, and $113 million globally.

— Jordan Moreau, Variety, 6 Nov. 2026

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And, for extra-cheap laffs, these animals routinely mugged to the camera about how awful their lives were at the hands of the humans misusing them.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Sep. 2026
Stuff like Caitlin Clark getting mugged with no foul being called, or Sophie Cunningham pointing at some obnoxious player, or ESPN drooling over a coach wearing a pro-trans shirt.

— Zach Dean OutKick, FOXNews.com, 6 Aug. 2026

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Once in sight of land at last, the ship is attacked (by the French, as this is during the French and Indian War), with consequences falling hardest on the Clems.

— Dennis Harvey, Variety, 6 Nov. 2026
Second, during a July test, OpenAI agents attacked Hugging Face systems in a move unrelated to its task.

— Stephen Pitt-Walker, Forbes.com, 6 Nov. 2026

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