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surnaming

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present participle of surname

as in styling

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Here, the guest gives her outfit a fashion-forward spin, styling Bermudas with an argyle vest layered over a white tee.

— Amanda Le, InStyle, 15 July 2026
How to Style Dark Floors The key to styling dark floors is balance.

— Melissa Epifano, The Spruce, 12 July 2026

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Multiple candidates have already hopped into the race to replace him, though the process for nominating a new candidate remains largely unclear.

— Garrett Downs, CNBC, 9 July 2026
He’s gravitated toward Democrats with a record of performing well statewide, and party leaders fear nominating someone too far outside the mainstream in Maine, one of the top Senate battlegrounds of the 2026 cycle.

— David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 7 July 2026

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In Miami, the city’s Miami 21 zoning code prohibits lodging stays fewer than 30 days in multi-family residential buildings like The Club unless the building has a special Certificate of Use (CU) designating it a condo-hotel.

— Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 16 July 2026
The state has benefitted by formally designating Netflix, Paramount and Lionsgate as studio partners, which have conferred a series of incentives to those companies over the long haul to produce titles there.

— Erik Hayden, HollywoodReporter, 15 July 2026

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His nanny was his fierce protector and insulated him from the depredations of Nazis and their enablers, baptizing him and teaching him to handily hurl anti-Jewish epithets to fit in.

— Ron Kampeas, Sun Sentinel, 11 May 2026
Maddock said Kozak had particularly loved presiding over Holy Saturday evening Mass, which is typically a time for baptizing people into the Catholic church.

— Evy Lewis, Chicago Tribune, 2 May 2026

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With the titling issues sorted, Arkell said the developers will start with building out roads, sewers and utility lines, and clear the 50-acre property over the next eight to 10 months in order to make way for building construction.

— Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 6 July 2026
From there, people can begin to look at titling assets and designate beneficiaries while also learning how assets pass (through probate or outside of probate) at death and to whom with different titlings and beneficiaries.

— Medora Lee, USA Today, 14 May 2026

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The ruling gave hijras official status as a minority community, entitling them to various forms of government assistance.

— Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 May 2026
The superintendent, general counsel and chief auditor qualify for the supplements due to provisions in their contracts entitling them to the same increases as other administrative staff, officials said.

— Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2026

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Save yourself the guessing game of wondering what is in your fridge by labeling and dating your leftovers.

— Brittney Melton, NPR, 2 July 2026
Beta 3 also added a Quick Panel icon for Summarise Notifications, with Samsung explicitly labelling the summaries as AI-generated, a small but telling sign that shows how Samsung is managing AI transparency with its users.

— Janhoi McGregor, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026

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