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Dave Brubeck, already an accomplished jazz pianist, serving in a military band at a Riverside, California, base, was reassigned, trained, then shipped overseas as a replacement infantry rifleman.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
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The buckets are used as a replacement for the standard cardboard Happy Meal box and can double as a candy pail to use for trick-or-treating on Halloween.—
Endia Fontanez,
AZCentral.com,
14 Oct. 2025
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Still, the San Leandro City Council is exploring the establishment of a Residential Rent Stabilization Ordinance, which officials said could impact more than 7,600 rental housing units in the city to prevent excessive rent increases and necessary displacement, Liao said.—
Chase Hunter,
Mercury News,
13 Oct. 2025
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The National Museum of the American Indian recalls how Indigenous peoples suffered theft, loss of their homelands, enslavement, death, forced displacement and disrupted cultural traditions due to European settlement.—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
12 Oct. 2025
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No substitution or compensation will be given for any portion of the prize that is not used.—
Vogue,
Vogue,
13 Oct. 2025
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That defense missed a right end on the play Warner got hurt and substitution errors can be crushing.—
Cam Inman,
Mercury News,
13 Oct. 2025
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Coseismic deformation was mapped based on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Analysis (DInSAR and Pixel Analysis).—
Hollie Silverman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 2025
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Low-energy hits only disturbed the surface, while stronger impacts caused cracks and deformation that exposed more material for reaction.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Oct. 2025
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The French duo that made distortion divine and disco dangerous is back on American soil.—
Alma Rota,
Rolling Stone,
14 Oct. 2025
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With a mass of about 1 million times that of Earth's sun, the object is considered the lowest-mass dark object yet found in the universe by analyzing gravitational distortions of light, according to the team of researchers.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
13 Oct. 2025
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This allowed the scientists to witness the dynamical ‘transmutation’ of exotic particles, which had been theoretically predicted for these exotic quantum states.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Sep. 2025
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The process of discovering how to convert my rage into strength was transmutation.—
Kelly Sundberg
August 28,
Literary Hub,
28 Aug. 2025
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He’s just gone through such a reformation, through his journey with Christ and everything [the NFL brings] too.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
17 Oct. 2025
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Still, the billionaire, who has become highly involved in U.S. and global politics, has also supported the overhaul and reformation of the H-1B system in the past.—
Dylan Butts,Victoria Yeo,
CNBC,
29 Sep. 2025
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The slight downward revision from what the administration had provided last Friday included the disclosure that roughly 800 employees within the Department of Health and Human Services were erroneously issued layoff notices.—
NPR,
NPR,
17 Oct. 2025
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Investors’ inability to trust official numbers — as a result of data falsifications and severe revisions — was a factor contributing to the Greek debt crisis in the early 2010s, which required multiple international bailouts and years of punishing economic reforms.—
J.D. Capelouto,
semafor.com,
16 Oct. 2025
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“Supplantation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supplantation. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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