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Korea sits at the center of the global HBM (high bandwidth memory) and DRAM (dynamic-random access memory) supply chain, not to mention macro tailwinds including a weaker USD, an accommodative Bank or Korea and a record current account surplus.—
Todd Gordon,
CNBC,
12 May 2026 -
Chinn and Ito describe a more rotating pattern, with large surpluses appearing at different times in China, Germany, oil exporters, Japan, and other economies.—
James Broughel,
Forbes.com,
10 May 2026
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Temperatures in excess of 82 degrees Fahrenheit are considered ideal conditions for tropical storm or hurricane development.—
Marshall Shepherd,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
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These morality tales, focusing on figures like Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky, make an implicit claim that individual avarice somehow explains the excesses of an entire era.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 May 2026
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To bear witness to the superfluity of beauty in the world.—
Kevin West,
Travel + Leisure,
8 May 2026
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If both parties orgasmed, all the better as this would help in the excretion of harmful superfluities.—
The Week UK,
TheWeek,
23 Apr. 2026
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On the power user's note, the Ultra supports 68W TurboPower charging, which seems overkill but is the kind of flagship feature Motorola can offer with a bang.—
Florence Ion,
PC Magazine,
1 May 2026
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Beuerlein lamented that fans can’t just watch all the games on TV at home for free, calling the NFL’s expansion to streaming services overkill.—
Ryan Canfield,
FOXNews.com,
28 Apr. 2026
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While there’s not exactly a surfeit of character development, the screenplay co-written by Corrigan and Hope Elliott Kemp provides just enough motivation to keep us interested in more than just the caper.—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
13 May 2026
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Both men marveled at the surfeit of shovels stacked by the door.—
Howard Halle,
ARTnews.com,
10 Apr. 2026
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One nationwide study published in 2024 counted more than 320,000 children who lost a parent to drug overdose between 2011 and 2021.—
Jayme Fraser,
USA Today,
14 May 2026
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About 70,000 Americans died from an overdose from December 2024 to December 2025, the lowest number since the fall of 2019 and a decline of about 14 percent from the prior year.—
Ana Goñi-Lessan,
Miami Herald,
14 May 2026
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When farmers complained about low prices, FDR blamed an oversupply of food.—
John Stossel,
Oc Register,
22 Apr. 2026
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Denver has an oversupply of apartments right now, thanks to a flurry of developers breaking ground when interest rates were low amid the pandemic.—
Thomas Gounley,
Denver Post,
18 Apr. 2026
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Keith leads us toward this richer amplitude.—
Glenn Adamson,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
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But there’s an uncertainty of around 20% on each of those figures (and, correspondingly, for the redshift as well), as a lower-mass merger that was closer or a higher-mass merger that was more distant would produce a signal with roughly the same amplitude.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
3 Apr. 2026
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