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Instead, as Quick reported, Dundon has already been canvassing the basketball world for Splitter’s possible replacement while clearly not caring about the awful optics.—
Sam Amick,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026 -
The replacement was made possible by the generous donation of an anonymous person, done in honor of his history-loving deceased wife.—
Janet Kusterer,
Baltimore Sun,
26 Apr. 2026
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Long engaged with questions of violence, displacement, and the politics of gender, Malani here turns to the myth of Orestes to probe the historical roots of power and its persistence in the present.—
Eana Kim,
ARTnews.com,
27 Apr. 2026
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Turnout there was 23%, but officials cited challenges including large-scale displacement and outdated civil registry records.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
26 Apr. 2026
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McMahon started the night on the bench and came in for Amed Rosario as a defensive substitution in the top of the eighth.—
Fiifi Frimpong,
New York Daily News,
18 Apr. 2026
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Rather than force a substitution that compromised quality—or lean more heavily on synthetics—the company began to reconsider its approach.—
Alexandra Harrell,
Footwear News,
13 Apr. 2026
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Even advanced physics engines cannot perfectly replicate real-world conditions—differences in friction, deformation, or lighting can lead to degraded model performance on actual robots.—
Ni Tao,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Apr. 2026
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Among Trump’s most consequential legacies has been his deformation of the temperament and disposition of virtually the entire Republican Party.—
Peter Wehner,
The Atlantic,
23 Mar. 2026
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Well, first of all, the news distortion stuff is also nonsense, right?—
Josef Adalian,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2026
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The other is a deliberate distortion.—
Baltimore Sun,
Twin Cities,
26 Apr. 2026
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Ouroboros-like, Erdrich is in continual, self-devouring motion and thus presents a kind of constancy of transmutation — identity itself becomes a variable in the endless calculation of renewal.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Mar. 2026
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If that writer is hailed as a once-in-a-generation voice, the reputation will undergo transmutations.—
Hermione Hoby,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
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The history of religion, with its thousands of schisms and reformations, is full of pilgrims who, rather than discard their relationship with their sacred text, have found purpose, clarity, and community through defiance.—
Séamas O'Reilly,
Vulture,
26 Mar. 2026
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Call it a hush puppy reformation, and the results are heavenly: crisp orbs with a surge of rich corn flavor and just a hint of jalapeño heat.—
Robert F. Moss,
Southern Living,
9 Mar. 2026
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The City Council unanimously approved the latest revision of those rules Tuesday, after council members earlier this month pressed city staff to add helmet requirements for all e-bike and e-scooter riders under 18-years-old.—
Kendrick Calfee,
Kansas City Star,
23 Apr. 2026
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By focusing on collaboration, autonomy, and long-form revision, Revise represents an effort to rethink how writing tools are designed and used.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2026
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“Supplantation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supplantation. Accessed 29 Apr. 2026.
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