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Verb
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What has changed is the breakout above $100, which is now occurring on meaningful volume and carrying the RSI to 77.—
Josh Brown,Sean Russo,
CNBC,
4 May 2026 -
That drama came out in 2000, but whether attitudes like those of Billy’s dad have changed much since then is open to debate.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
4 May 2026
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Gas prices have fluctuated in recent days, following news of a fragile ceasefire on April 8.—
Julia Gomez,
USA Today,
30 Apr. 2026
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Apple shares fluctuated in late trading before dipping about 1%.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
30 Apr. 2026
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But the War on Terror persisted and mutated into nightmares in Iraq and Afghanistan, and then Syria, which unleashed that darkness in the form of terrorist states and a refugee crisis that spread anti-Muslim and anti-migrant hatred to Europe, the United States, and beyond.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Apr. 2026
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According to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, BRCA2 is a gene that, when mutated, can increase a person’s lifetime risk of breast and other cancers, including ovarian, prostate and pancreatic.—
Samantha Agate,
Miami Herald,
28 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Cedric Mullins, who snapped an 0-for-19 stretch with a first-inning single, drew a walk to force in a run, his first RBI since April 18.—
Marc Topkin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
3 May 2026
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Illinois Tech’s seven-game winning streak was snapped Friday, but it’s headed to the Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference tournament coming up.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
3 May 2026
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But those are just averages, and prices posted at Southeast Michigan gas stations have varied widely even in the same community.—
Paula Wethington,
CBS News,
30 Apr. 2026
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The different plans have varied monthly or annual payments, and each company offers discounts.—
Caroline Ernst,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Ever the optimist, Obama shifted out of his defensive posture.—
Peter Slevin,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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By the time cases reach the court, the focus has often shifted from prevention to maintenance and tertiary care.—
Kaitlyn Schallhorn,
Oc Register,
4 May 2026
Verb
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The show that began as a bottom-up look at the cutthroat world of finance has metamorphosed into something more dismal.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
12 Jan. 2026
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The pressure and heat of deep burial and tectonic events over eons have transformed the silt into a hard metamorphic rock, and the microbial carbon in it has metamorphosed into graphite.—
Howard Lee,
ArsTechnica,
11 Aug. 2025
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The foundation of making our children our priority has never wavered.—
Sarah Sotoodeh,
FOXNews.com,
26 Apr. 2026
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For years, the Dolphins front office wavered between being a big, physical team built around the draft to a small, fast team built in free agency.—
Dave Hyde,
Sun Sentinel,
25 Apr. 2026
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“Turned around.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/turned%20around. Accessed 8 May. 2026.
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