Given the dramatic manner in which the hulking piers marched down the center of the institution’s narrow corridor, flanked by the photographer’s three-inch-square Polaroids, hung as if in awed supplication, the effect verged on hyperbole, the gnomic ceding to the grandiose.
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James Quandt,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
As the delegates were marched out of their hotel rooms, investigators also arrived at the Home of FIFA, the organization’s global headquarters, which has six underground levels dug into a hillside on the edge of Zurich.
Dodgers left-hander Justin Wrobleski shouted two words — the first of which didn’t appear to be fit for print — and strode off the mound, the icy expression on his face frozen in place all the way to the dugout.
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Maddie Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2026
After the media availability was over, Busch strode directly over to his boss.
To pay more homage to Drac, a scary fire-breathing replica is paraded through Palma religious festivals and last year an artist’s floating sculpture of a 10-foot Drac was permanently installed in the lake below La Seu Cathedral.
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Norma Meyer,
Oc Register,
27 May 2026
As was the case with some of Juventus’ Italian players in the tournament’s 2006 edition, notably Gianluigi Buffon and Alessandro Del Piero, Baresi flew home a world champion, paraded through Rome in triumph, and then prepared himself for life in the second division.
Timmerman replaced Burnham and walked Jolyna Lamar and Rylee Slimp before Grant crushed a 260-foot no-doubter that hit a metal fence beyond the wall in left-center field.
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Tim Willert,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2026
Saylor Timmerman replaced Burnham and walked Jolyna Lamar and Rylee Slimp before Grant blasted a 260-foot homer that hit a metal fence beyond the wall in left-center field.
About 50 yards from Monken’s scrum, and minutes before news of the trade broke, Berry paced back and forth in a parking lot while talking on his phone.
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Jourdan Rodrigue,
New York Times,
2 June 2026
So Ellington triple jumper Fredrick Anyah came back and jumped three more times as Asmus paced nervously nearby.
As rain peppered the tarp covering Yankee Stadium’s infield, Yesavage strolled around the Blue Jays clubhouse below.
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Mitch Bannon,
New York Times,
21 May 2026
Just around the corner from the rally on Tajrish Square, in a tranquil park near the Cinema Museum of Iran, locals perused an open-air book stall and sipped tea, while couples strolled hand in hand.
Locals complained tourist gawked at them or traipsed through their yards.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
23 Apr. 2026
In the story, the dress is a reminder of a more exciting time in the lives of the married protagonists, who have returned to Canada after having traipsed around the globe for years.
Now, in the hot and humid Laotian early summer, their team trekked four kilometers through dense jungle in search of the missing men, in an area about 55 kilometers (35 miles) east of the lush, scenic backpacker hotspot of Vang Vieng.
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Kocha Olarn,
CNN Money,
28 May 2026
Crowds of new learners trekked to language intensives at a stately Tudor home known as the Esperanto House in a village near Stoke-on-Trent, the hub of England’s post–World War II Esperantist activity.
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