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Even as the judge stayed within the sentencing guidelines, with today as a trial run, pardon the pun, expect those filings in the very near future, I’m told.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
3 Oct. 2025 -
But unlike most beginnings, this one got a trial run, Joining the Lakers in February gave Dončić a sense of what life in Los Angeles would be like.—
Dan Woike,
New York Times,
24 Sep. 2025
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Order fast to ensure the custom designs arrive before Christmas, and remember to plug in PET20 at checkout.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
7 Nov. 2025
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Still others balked at the checkout total.—
Deirdre Bardolf,
FOXNews.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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Unlike terrestrial weather, scientists who forecast celestial events like the aurora rely on observations of the 93-million-miles-away sun to make their predictions.—
John Tufts,
IndyStar,
11 Nov. 2025
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Not trying to spark controversy but this is an obvious observation.—
Ted Nguyen,
New York Times,
11 Nov. 2025
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If there is a potential for temperatures to fall into these thresholds, a freeze watch may be issued a few days ahead of time.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Nov. 2025
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Sotheby’s estimated nearly a third of its watch sales in 2023 went to buyers age 30 and under, giving them priceless social currency.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
9 Nov. 2025
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Privacy and civil liberties advocates also warn these surveillance tools represent a grave threat and say there is not a sufficient regulatory framework in place or oversight to ensure federal agents are using new technologies in a way that protects privacy and constitutional rights.—
Jude Joffe-Block,
NPR,
8 Nov. 2025
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In short, Australia is developing an autonomous underwater surveillance network using local technology and ship platforms to monitor its northern approaches more effectively.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Nov. 2025
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Health inspectors gave the Sacramento Chinese restaurant a yellow placard following a reinspection.—
Camila Pedrosa,
Sacbee.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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Catfish Smith, located at 4620 Botham Jean Boulevard, had a score of 71 and will require reinspection within 30 days.—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
30 Aug. 2025
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Now available for your perusal: All 1,749 (once proprietary and not-for-public-consumption) images of San Onofre’s nuclear waste canisters, just a mouse click away!—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
23 Oct. 2025
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But a hockey team that has every player pulling the rope in the same direction can have a lot more success than a quick perusal of the lineup might suggest.—
Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
12 Oct. 2025
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Filippenko did not participate in the new research, but his work has established a strong foundation for active galactic nuclei physics.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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The research team claimed that this approach enables AeroMap to capture the main effects of drag without the high computing demands of more detailed simulations.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Nov. 2025
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