Daily baguette runs to the local bakery – an errand that Anract says used to be as automatic and ritualistic as brushing teeth – have become less frequent.
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Vivian Song,
CNN Money,
8 Nov. 2025
PetMD recommends making brushing as enjoyable for your dog as possible.
Now, industry eyerolling at the thought of listening faster has existed since the majority of audio storytelling moved from terrestrial radio—where there’s no skipping, scrubbing forward or backward, and certainly no way to speed things up—to podcasting.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
Somebody is in the kitchen scrubbing your cast-iron pan with dish soap.
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Laura L. Davis,
Nashville Tennessean,
31 Oct. 2025
Catherine Corless, a local historian in Tuam, spent years combing through death certificates and church records from the former home, eventually documenting 796 children who died there.
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Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
7 Nov. 2025
By Wednesday morning, law enforcement officers and workers in protective clothing were combing the area in search of the missing animals.
All of this revenue and all of the money that's washing around to this system is tax sheltered and tax advantaged, which means that on a certain level, taxpayers are underwriting this across the board.
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Dana Taylor,
USA Today,
11 Nov. 2025
Use Borax and Washing Soda Add one-fourth cup of borax and one-fourth cup of washing soda to the washer drum.
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Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
10 Nov. 2025
Before putting a bow on the postgame celebrations of Notre Dame’s 49-10 blowout of Navy, the defensive end and cornerback went head-first toward the student section before dusting themselves off for the Alma Mater.
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Pete Sampson,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2025
Work from Top to Bottom Start your week dusting and wiping down upper surfaces like countertops and cabinets, then concentrate on floors.
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