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Focusing on everyday shapewear, Yummie hugs instead of squeezes like traditional shapewear that can be extremely tight and constrictive.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
11 Apr. 2026 -
Short sellers betting against CoreWeave are racking up steep losses as a recent rally squeezes bearish positions.—
Sean Conlon,Lisa Kailai Han,
CNBC,
8 Apr. 2026
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Every calf that survives to adulthood shifts the math for the entire species.—
Hanna Wickes,
Kansas City Star,
6 Apr. 2026
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Whether the law survives looming legal challenges—rooted in a 1933 state Supreme Court ruling classifying income as property—remains an open question.—
Catherina Gioino,
Fortune,
3 Apr. 2026
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Simply wet your hat with water, wring it out and wave it for instant cooling that lasts up to two hours.—
Tory Johnson,
ABC News,
9 Apr. 2026
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Seeding meetings for playoffs also could be delayed depending on how long a strike lasts.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Apr. 2026
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Barkin, who was dating Levinson at the time of the film’s production, gamely strives to anchor the odd, histrionic film with her performance and wrings real pathos out of Lynn’s brittle and wounded demeanor.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
10 Apr. 2026
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Her sometimes slacker, sometimes twee rock takes recurring major sevenths and wrings them for all their existential meaning.—
Ethan Beck,
Pitchfork,
27 Mar. 2026
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Here, the director wrests a radioactive joy from observing Godard generate ideas with his ensemble, even as others pull their hair out around him.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
4 Nov. 2025
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Seattle fans can already envision a future where a one-loss Seahawks team wrests control of the division away from Los Angeles in early November, but Tampa Bay has to be the first domino to fall.—
J.J. Bailey,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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Allowing payment via cash box and Venmo affords Atchley more free time to bake instead of being present to make sales.—
Tiney Ricciardi,
Denver Post,
10 Apr. 2026
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This affords it plenty of privacy despite the windows on all sides, with the only immediate neighbors being a boisterous bunch of alpacas, goats, chicken, and cows.—
Bailey Berg,
Architectural Digest,
8 Apr. 2026
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“Scrapes (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrapes%20%28out%29. Accessed 14 Apr. 2026.
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