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stars (in)

verb

present tense third-person singular of star (in)

as in interprets

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Leadership sees throughput rising and interprets it as progress.

— Madhukar S. Dubey, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
While the human brain interprets motion as a fluid pattern, multimodal AI still examines videos by their individual frames.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 16 July 2026

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For someone who performs in a mask and had often relied on metaphor to guide his lyrical decisions, his connection with his fans is unusually close.

— Marissa R. Moss, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2026
Brown’s co-defendant, his vocal coach Omololu Akinlolu, a rapper who performs under the name Hoody Baby, was also reported to have pleaded guilty to affray.

— Max Goldbart, Deadline, 24 July 2026

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Minka Kelly and Dan Reynolds Kelly, who portrays Quinn in Ransom Canyon, has been in a relationship with Reynolds since 2022.

— Francesca Gariano, PEOPLE, 25 July 2026
Drawing on the testimonies of 255 workers across eight factories in Pakistan, the report portrays an industry beset by pervasive unlawful wages, excessive working hours, harassment, bullying, surveillance and intimidation.

— Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 24 July 2026

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A lot of great actors are based around there, and there were others like Lubna Azabal who plays Julia Felix.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 21 July 2026
Sean Clements Rated PG-13, 1 hour 43 minutes Johnson plays Dustin Boyd, whose laser-focused, hardass father Chuck (Ed Harris) trained him for tennis excellence from early childhood.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 21 July 2026

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Security researchers at Jamf Threat Labs have uncovered CrashStealer, a new Mac information stealer that impersonates Apple's crash-reporting software.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 21 July 2026
The first stage puts its payload inside an app bundle that impersonates real components built into macOS.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 2 July 2026

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