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The Warriors, according to Yahoo’s Kevin O’Connor, began looking into current Florida coach Todd Golden, a Saint Mary’s alum and former USF coach, as a potential replacement if the 60-year-old Kerr did not return.—
Joseph Dycus,
Mercury News,
10 May 2026 -
Canned tuna isn’t a replacement for the fresh kind but instead is its own big player.—
Nina Moskowitz,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
10 May 2026
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McCrorey Heights displacement Ivory doesn’t remember what happened when her mom received the letter from the state highway commission.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
11 May 2026
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Roseberry’s work privileges spectacle—volume, gold, anatomical exaggeration—where Schiaparelli’s shock lay in wit and displacement.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 May 2026
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How the substitution may impact on-the-ground populations in need of support is a central question facing global public health right now.—
Jesse Pines,
Forbes.com,
10 May 2026
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That may have resulted in the substitution of less-lethal drugs, like xylazine, to the mix, researchers said.—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
8 May 2026
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All of the processes of deformation, faulting and sedimentation are localized in one area, causing the Earth's crust to thin dramatically, according to Rowan, the study's lead author.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
29 Apr. 2026
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Lateral deformation and bowing can impact the placement and performance of fuel, and the monobloc construction of these tubes is designed to mitigate those issues.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Apr. 2026
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The challenge is distinguishing imbalances rooted in fundamentals from those created by policy distortions.—
James Broughel,
Forbes.com,
10 May 2026
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Meanwhile, Russia’s over-all economy is beginning to suffocate under the many distortions and externalities caused by four-plus years of full-scale war.—
Joshua Yaffa,
New Yorker,
8 May 2026
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This transformation could signify a hallucinatory experience rather than a physical transmutation, indicating a tradition of pharmacological knowledge.—
Gitanjali Roy,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
30 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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Historically, the superintendent has not had sufficient experience in K-12 classrooms to improve efficiency, center equity and center hands-on policy reformation.—
Jemma Stephenson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 May 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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In their letter, the faculty committee said not only would potential conflicts of interest arise in the impartiality of future tenure decisions and other professional development opportunities, but in the development and approval of the pending revision of the amorous relationship policy.—
Elizabeth Hernandez,
Denver Post,
7 May 2026
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Kwedar directed the feature from a script written by Gaelyn Golde with revisions by he and Bentley.—
Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
6 May 2026
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“Supplantation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supplantation. Accessed 13 May. 2026.
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