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His replacement was Joe Willock, a rangy, athletic midfielder who helps Newcastle find a different gear in a game where there is space to exploit.—
Harry De Cosemo,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025 -
Clogging the middle The Packers might have found their T.J. Slaton replacement in sixth-round Georgia defensive tackle Warren Brinson, who stands 6 feet 5 and weighs 315 pounds.—
Matt Schneidman,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2025
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This occurs when the construction of parks or the planting of trees contributes to an increase in property values that leads to the displacement of long-term residents in low-income neighborhoods.—
Sonja Dümpelmann,
The Conversation,
24 Apr. 2025
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Sudan is currently the world’s largest humanitarian and child displacement crisis, with more than 30 million people overall needing humanitarian assistance this year.—
Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab,
Forbes.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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With the substitution of Thommy and Zorhan Bassong at the hour mark, Sporting started to settle in with fresher legs.—
Daniel Sperry,
Kansas City Star,
20 Apr. 2025
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Maresca insisted the substitution was down to broader tactical considerations, but his choice left little room to envision a significant role for the 18-year-old in the defining stretch of Chelsea’s season.—
Liam Twomey,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2025
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In the northern Sierra, there are currently no signs of deformation.—
Taylor Nicioli,
CNN Money,
18 Apr. 2025
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Because of the slope’s slow-moving collapse, scientists can study the landslide’s historical rates of deformation and see how those changes relate to the retreat of the Barry Arm glacier.—
Darren Orf,
Smithsonian Magazine,
18 Mar. 2025
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In the larger sense, along with truth comes a distortion of it, sometimes innocently and inadvertently but, more often than not, by design and for ulterior purposes.—
Eli Amdur,
Forbes.com,
13 Apr. 2025
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These distortions reduce a complex conflict to a morality play.—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Apr. 2025
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This realignment will catalyze the transmutation of negative thought patterns into a higher state of cognitive resonance, thereby enabling the manifestation of your innermost desires through the law of quantum attraction.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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Williams compares his project to sampling, riffing on DeCarava’s work as an act of transmutation.—
Sheldon Pearce,
The New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2025
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In 2007, New Order would split, though Hook would not return for their 2011 reformation, instead choosing to continue with his new band Peter Hook & The Light.—
Tyler Jenke,
Billboard,
18 Apr. 2025
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In their official reformation as the Hurt Syndicate in AEW in September and October of 2024, the group has been pushed strong.—
David Faris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Apr. 2025
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Francis’s revision of Catholic teaching on the death penalty, though in continuity with recent predecessors, struck many Catholics as discordant with earlier teaching.—
The Editors,
National Review,
21 Apr. 2025
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Housewives: where rhinoplasty revisions are just part of the glow-up journey.—
Shelby Stewart,
Essence,
21 Apr. 2025
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“Supplantation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supplantation. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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