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Noun
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The government’s unpopularity in the rural areas and propensity for violence against villagers has opened the door for JNIM to cast itself as a more effective protector.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
10 May 2026 -
Over the years, villagers in Roko-Roko held demonstrations, accusing the mining company of clearing community farmland and contaminating a local spring.—
NPR,
NPR,
7 May 2026
Noun
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Like the yeoman boys are out in the barn, half-naked, working out, buffing up and wearing animal heads and preparing for some kind of an inchoate battle with the burghers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Nov. 2025
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These works, painted by artists such as Rembrandt van Rijn, Ferdinand Bol, and Bartholomeus van der Helst, depict the powerful merchant-burghers who shaped the political and social fabric of Golden Age Amsterdam.—
Lee Sharrock,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Canons and more were taken from the fort to Boston to bolster the colonists there.—
USA Today,
USA Today,
6 May 2026
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This surely confirmed the colonists’ sense of their own importance.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
Noun
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In Thursday’s season finale, Eddie is caught in the crosshairs of Anatoly Caster (Alan Starzinski), the scion of a corrupt businessman who was the target of a police raid, led by protagonist Athena Grant (Angela Bassett), for facilitating a human trafficking ring involving migrants in Los Angeles.—
Max Gao,
HollywoodReporter,
8 May 2026
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The detention center, which opened in July 2025 in the Everglades to hold migrants for deportation, has faced opposition from activist groups.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
8 May 2026
Noun
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In Maywood, where somewhat more than 23,000 people live in a little over one square mile, the city’s park staff has had to step in to break up arguments among locals about who gets to use baseball diamonds and soccer fields and when.—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
6 May 2026
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Based in Mar del Plata on Argentina’s Atlantic coast, Matías Duville refers to the ocean as an invisible force affecting the locals’ every move, a massive presence that drives people’s bodies in ways both known and unknown.—
Thomas Patier,
Artforum,
6 May 2026
Noun
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There’s nothing inherently antisemitic about protesting over the dispossession of Palestinians, and the attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank by settlers, which appear to be sanctioned by the Israeli government.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
7 May 2026
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By then, the salubrious environment that Central Florida’s earliest settlers found had already been transformed many times over.—
Stephen Hudak,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 May 2026
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That’s a huge advantage for these newcomers.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
11 May 2026
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Proctor bragged about properly hydrating himself before practice, which is something past and present Dolphins coaches and trainers annually lecture the newcomers about to avoid dehydration, and the use of intravenous fluids.—
Omar Kelly,
Miami Herald,
10 May 2026
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Government planes carrying Spanish and French nationals landed in Madrid and Paris on Sunday afternoon, where the passengers were transported to a hospital, according to the two countries' governments.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
11 May 2026
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Dutch nationals are expected to be isolated at home for six weeks, while foreign passengers remaining in the Netherlands will be quarantined by municipal health authorities.—
Tiago Ventura,
Time,
11 May 2026
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“Townees.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/townees. Accessed 14 May. 2026.
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