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throwaways

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as in castaways

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Both are works in that long tradition of castaways forced to survive, but in many ways, Crusoe—a colonist and capitalist and the later a jaundiced observer of the worst excesses of those systems—is the opposite of Gulliver.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2026
As fans recall, season 50 featured a guest appearance by MrBeast, who challenged the castaways to correctly guess a coin toss to double the $1 million prize.

— Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2026

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Cara Hile and her mother, Jeri, strolled up to a two-story home in Brookside Saturday, pamphlets in-hand.

— Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 3 Nov. 2026
Brooks was handing out pamphlets for Republican County Judge Tim O’Hare and wearing an O’Hare campaign shirt.

— Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Oct. 2026

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And defunct iIndustry supplied artistic entrepreneurs with adaptable real-estate discards, like London’s Bankside Power Station, which evolved into Herzog & de Meuron’s Tate Modern.

— Justin Davidson, Curbed, 29 July 2026
Li has dedicated freezer bags for different dishes, like vegetable scraps for soups or fruit discards for smoothies.

— Emily Siner, NPR, 27 June 2026

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Even the World Organization for Animal Health, whose guidelines the CFIA follows, is reconsidering how effective culls are in halting bird-flu outbreaks in a world where the next wild duck to land at a farm could trigger another one.

— J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
In a letter to Defence Minister Luke Pollard this week, 18 MPs and one member of the House of Lords urged the government to stop using bear pelts sourced from legal culls in Canada and instead adopt faux-fur alternatives.

— James Frater, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2026

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Tap the Files tile to create and share folders, assign access permissions, and upload or download files.

— John R. Delaney, PC Magazine, 3 Nov. 2026
Paide prefers to use simple file folders to organize her papers, and likes labeling those folders with sticky notes written with permanent markers.

— Andee Tagle, NPR, 29 Oct. 2026

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The stage uses Blue Origin’s BE-7 engine, which delivers more than 460 seconds of vacuum-specific impulse on GS3 mission profiles.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2026
The Bruins never trailed after Betts hit a short basket 12 seconds into the game.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026

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