as in found
to come upon after searching, study, or effort
I can probably scare up my old textbooks if you need them
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Denver has already landed its first founding partner, CommonSpirit Health, which also secured naming rights for the club’s performance center.—
Asli Pelit,
New York Times,
24 Sep. 2025 -
This year the honor roll student founded The Curious Kid Collective, a community initiative that promotes literacy and creative exploration for children through storytelling and art, and was a recipient of the Fashion Scholarship Fund’s Virgil Abloh Post-Modern scholarship.—
Anna Moeslein,
Glamour,
23 Sep. 2025
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But upon the couples’ return from their honeymoon, Jones learned her new husband had been diagnosed with cancer.—
Rachel Barber,
USA Today,
28 Sep. 2025
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Founded in 2000 by Doug McCraw and Lutz Hofbauer as an arts nonprofit, FAT Village was a unique, innovative arts hub right next to the train tracks where artists showed their work, students learned figure drawing, and patrons sipped cappuccinos while surrounded by vintage books.—
Amanda Rosa,
Miami Herald,
27 Sep. 2025
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Unger and Struve discovered that under new state rules, treatment centers would no longer pay sober homes to house clients transitioning out of their programs, which had grown more common as a result of federal funding changes related to the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
23 Sep. 2025
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Pathologists soon discovered that some remains were infested with bluebottle fly larvae.—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
22 Sep. 2025
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What To Know Detectives responded to the airport after workers located the body in the aircraft’s landing gear compartment during a routine maintenance check when the plane arrived after a transatlantic flight from Europe.—
Hollie Silverman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Sep. 2025
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Grand Blanc is a small city located about 60 miles away from central Detroit.—
Nicholas Rice,
PEOPLE,
28 Sep. 2025
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And there are photos that 247Sports dug up from past Manning throws, even dating to his high school days, that show the grimace.—
Sam Khan Jr,
New York Times,
13 Sep. 2025
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After the mysterious deaths of the two diamondback rattlesnakes, Cardwell dug up temperature data from a 20-year-old study in the Mojave Desert to help develop a mathematical model for measuring what might be happening inside the desert burrows.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Adult female flies can lay up to 400 eggs at a time, and each larva in a human patient has to be physically dug out from infected flesh.—
Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
25 Aug. 2025
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Over 70 tonnes has been dug out of the space, and the house needs to be property underpinned.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Aug. 2025
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