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Noun
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Other castaways struggled with how to present themselves on screen while playing this game of cons and elimination.—
Shaan Merchant,
Rolling Stone,
20 May 2026 -
One guy simply voted for his fellow castaways in alphabetical order.—
Julie Beck,
The Atlantic,
12 May 2026
Noun
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But the emergency evacuation pamphlets aren't the only thing Bina proudly displays in her bathroom.—
Colson Thayer,
PEOPLE,
28 May 2026
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That terror and the presence of the Ku Klux Klan, which littered the streets with pamphlets amid the fallout of Padgett’s accusations, prompted the governor to call in the National Guard to quell the violence.—
Cristóbal Reyes,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 May 2026
Noun
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This is a creative process whereby discards are cleaned and sent to factory, where they are cut, re-shaped and sewn into a new end product.—
Steve Scauzillo,
Daily News,
18 May 2026
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The vast majority of those discards wind up in the trash, further exacerbating the avocado’s environmental impact.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
15 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The bound paper booklets in which students hand-write their responses to test questions have surged in popularity during the AI explosion.—
Jamil Zaki,
CNBC,
12 May 2026
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Guide booklets are available at the park's visitor centers.—
Patricia Doherty,
Travel + Leisure,
3 May 2026
Noun
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Meanwhile, resistance to AI applications is growing in the world’s second-largest economy as worker fears of mass job culls rise.—
Semafor Events,
semafor.com,
24 Apr. 2026
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Livestock breeders, who have seen their flocks decimated by mass culls due to an outbreak of sheep and goat pox, have joined the protests, which began in November.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
13 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Microsoft has also improved Windows search to better recognize files and folders from just two characters, and USB4 and USB3 have been made more stable and resilient against errors caused by unexpected hardware faults.—
Jon Martindale,
PC Magazine,
28 May 2026
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That knowledge is usually scattered across old slide decks, folders, Slack threads, emails and in the memories of people who have been around long enough to know all of the details.—
Shreyas Nair,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
Noun
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When using a Bluetooth connection, there are a fair few audio dropouts that'll last ~5 seconds or so before the audio cuts back in.—
Joe Salas
May 31,
New Atlas,
31 May 2026
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In 30 seconds, lies are on your pocket phone.—
Stephen Sorace,
FOXNews.com,
31 May 2026
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To create the wardrobe for Alamo, his mother, and the other characters in the prologue, Newman-Thomas scoured vintage catalogs and magazines — not just from the late 1970s, but from earlier decades.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
27 May 2026
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Think documentation, data catalogs and governance policies written in a wiki somewhere.—
Emma McGrattan,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
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“Throwaways.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/throwaways. Accessed 2 Jun. 2026.
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