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Playing their own postseason-style of defense, the Wild spent the first two games tailing and trying to control the impact of Dallas standouts Wyatt Johnston and Jason Robertson, and have held them each to just one even-strength goal in the first two games.—
Jess Myers,
Twin Cities,
22 Apr. 2026 -
Signing up for a walking tour across new terrain or high-tailing it through the airport are next to impossible when your toes are screaming in discomfort.—
Stephanie Osmanski,
Better Homes & Gardens,
5 Apr. 2026
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Offshore Data Centers Face Challenges Aikido’s plan avoids the prickly not-in-my-backyard complaints that are dogging both onshore wind and data-center projects.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
3 Mar. 2026
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Stocks had a rough session Friday on the worries about AI hurting the economy that have been dogging the market for weeks.—
Morgan Chittum,
CNBC,
28 Feb. 2026
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Lightning head coach Jon Cooper has given the assignment of shadowing Suzuki’s line to his duo of Anthony Cirelli and Brandon Hagel, with a combination of Jake Guentzel and Nikita Kucherov playing with them.—
Arpon Basu,
New York Times,
26 Apr. 2026
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Flockhill, a working sheep station in New Zealand with top-notch food and accommodations, says guests rank its farm tours, which include shadowing the shepherds and viewing lambing and shearing, as the highlight of their stay.—
Jen Murphy,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Apr. 2026
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Even today, as the Suns battle the Oklahoma City Thunder in a Western Conference first-round series, the 6-foot-3 Goodwin is among the league’s bigger pests, grabbing rebounds, hounding shooters, stealing possessions.—
Doug Haller,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2026
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At times texts showed Diamantis hounding them for his payment and threatening to remove them from school jobs if he wasn’t paid.—
Dave Altimari,
Hartford Courant,
20 Apr. 2026
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Eldridge again set up the score, throwing on the brakes entering the offensive zone along the blue line and hitting a trailing Rattray with a pass.—
Jason Cooke,
Boston Herald,
1 May 2026
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The stock fell 15% this year through Thursday’s close, trailing the more than 5% rise in the benchmark S&P 500 Index.—
Bloomberg,
Oc Register,
1 May 2026
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“Tailgating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tailgating. Accessed 9 May. 2026.
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