The grandfather also showed him the sorry sight of contemporary hedges deformed by diabolical flail trimmers that chewed the natural architecture of branches into an anarchy of twigs.
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Annie Proulx,
New Yorker,
10 Aug. 2025
This stresses the plant and may lead to fewer or deformed flowers.
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Rita Pelczar,
Better Homes & Gardens,
30 July 2025
That surgery, which left the boy disfigured, should never have been performed on a patient of that age because the condition naturally resolves in 80% of patients, the medical board said.
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Phoebe Quinton,
AJC.com,
15 June 2026
Leaves become stippled or disfigured, turn yellow, dry out, and fall off the plant.
Conservatives cannot allow our discourse to be distorted by manipulative foreign amplification.
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Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Dec. 2025
The quality of my work varied; sometimes, in my desperation to document, to fill in all the archival gaps, to address what was unknown or distorted, the telling would suffer.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has redefined the department’s public posture around slogans of lethality and aggression while overhauling everything from the military’s chain of command to its integration of artificial intelligence into targeting and battlefield decision-making.
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Nik Popli,
Time,
8 June 2026
But BookTok has also redefined what fits into your beach bag, leading TikTok to curate its first-ever US BookTok Summer Reading List, released Thursday morning.
Fragments of the original were later recovered and refashioned to form the sculpture now standing on the north side of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
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Lilyanna D'Amato,
ARTnews.com,
27 May 2026
Martin seems to have written plenty of those, but some of his peppier songs are also refashioned as lovestruck soliloquies.
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Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
8 May 2026
In recent years, however, the number of students that needed to take the class exploded—from 32 in 2020 to 665 in 2025—and deficiencies have become so bad that the course had to be redesigned to cover middle school and even elementary level skills.
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Adam B. Summers,
Oc Register,
11 June 2026
In 1976, the residence was redesigned as a retirement home for church missioners.
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