Over in the next aisle, Gifty Anderson, who typically buys bales from Canada and the United Kingdom, held up a dress smeared with body makeup and tossed it aside without a second thought.
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Jasmin Malik Chua,
Footwear News,
8 June 2026
The dog couldn’t go in her room so soon after her transplant, so Aspen dabbed colors on a small canvas and handed it to Scott, who put it in a plastic bag and smeared peanut butter on top.
From the estuary of the River Plate, the city looks mysterious, almost smudged, its lines seeming less refined than those of Paris but more modern than Warsaw’s.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 May 2026
Those smudged, hazy glass patio doors are not doing your indoor-outdoor view any favors.
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Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Kansas City Star,
27 Apr. 2026
As a result, many people living near Mavecure have gotten out of gold mining, which polluted the jungle rivers with mercury and sediment, to work as tour guides, operate restaurants and hostels, or sell arts and crafts.
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John Otis,
NPR,
30 May 2026
At the latter, four local farmers show The Athletic water courses polluted with crude oil.
Spielberg, who inducted the singer-songwriter into the Hall of Fame, praised the power of authentic storytelling in an age increasingly blurred by algorithms and artificial intelligence.
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Bryan West,
USA Today,
12 June 2026
The lines defining where a digital transaction ends and a physical retail experience begins have blurred into irrelevance.
Some kits are less easy to adore, whether bad (always subjective), good but spoiled by a dubious sponsor, a combination of both or tainted by association.
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George Caulkin,
New York Times,
11 June 2026
The left no longer believes that immigrants of diverse backgrounds should assimilate themselves into a national culture tainted by white supremacy, while the right views immigrants’ very presence in the country as a threat to that same national culture.
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