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At the same time, delegation should not be romanticized as a universal cure for healthcare dysfunction.—
Sachin H. Jain,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026 -
Even the Second World War has been somehow romanticized in films and TV.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
17 May 2026
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Burgum purged the department of roughly 13,000 staffers last year and announced efforts to reduce its workforce by even more in April.—
Joseph Konig,
PEOPLE,
29 May 2026
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According to Kornfield, among the documents purged was a news release about a man who went to the Capitol with bear spray and is still facing an ongoing child solicitation case.—
Drew Pittock,
USA Today,
24 May 2026
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Waddingham was equally passionate about ensuring Debbie and Judith’s friendship felt authentic rather than idealized.—
Deirdre Durkan,
PEOPLE,
1 June 2026
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Her reflections don’t present motherhood as effortless or idealized.—
Sugey Palomares,
Parents,
1 June 2026
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She was hooked up to a hemodialysis machine where her blood flowed out of her body to be purified and was then transferred back into her body where it was reabsorbed.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 June 2026
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There it is filtered and purified before being fed into the Reflecting Pool.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
31 May 2026
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Bluey tells compelling stories of emotional intelligence and regulation in a way that doesn’t feel sugarcoated and is hopeful rather than escapist.—
Miranda Rake,
Parents,
19 Feb. 2026
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For its part, Housewives has sugarcoated neither Gay’s clashes with the Mormon Church and subsequent estrangement from some friends and family members, nor the painful excommunication of her castmate and cousin Whitney Rose.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
12 Nov. 2025
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The bodies must be decontaminated before being taken to the corner’s office, local authorities said.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
29 May 2026
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More than a dozen first responders were quarantined and decontaminated after responding to the scene.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
22 May 2026
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The dangers faced by health workers have been heightened by anger among residents over the stringent medical protocols for handling the victims’ bodies, which clash with local burial rites.—
Justin Kabumba,
Los Angeles Times,
31 May 2026
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The dangers faced by health workers have been heightened by anger among residents over the stringent medical protocols for handling the victims' bodies, which clash with local burial rites.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
31 May 2026
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The May 6 attempt was scrubbed two hours before liftoff because of valve on ULA’s upper Centaur stage that teams continue to investigate.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 June 2026
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Weeks before Alligator Alcatraz opened, the Our Team page of the CRS website was scrubbed.—
Eric Schlosser,
The Atlantic,
4 June 2026
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“Sanitized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sanitized. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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