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Honorees who advanced to the Super Bowl were replaced by alternates (Trubisky was Jared Goff’s alternate in 2018-19) and the exhibition no longer was held in Aloha Stadium each year.—
Tim Graham,
New York Times,
13 Feb. 2026
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The comedians recapped the content creators' ongoing beef, which came to a head when Cooper called out Earle in a TikTok shared on April 13.—
Zoey Lyttle,
PEOPLE,
4 May 2026
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This evening, Netflix unfurls the third edition of Netflix Is a Joke Fest, its sprawling, citywide comedy showcase that in just four years has become one of the buzziest gatherings of comedians in the world.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
4 May 2026
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Agreed, but this bill substitutes the long, painstaking and complex work of fixing California’s troubled insurance market with finger-pointing and posturing.—
Steven Greenhut,
Oc Register,
12 Apr. 2026
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Rosenson said that if CRISPR is a scissor that cuts both strands of DNA, base editing is an eraser that substitutes one chemical letter, or base, in a single strand of DNA.—
David Cox,
NBC news,
6 Apr. 2026
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Caltrans has begun partial daytime closures for electrical work and component replacements on the 90-year-old Tower Bridge over the Sacramento River.—
Nicole Buss,
Sacbee.com,
4 May 2026
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The company's owner offered help, ordering staff to ship replacements from ES Windows' manufacturing complex in Barranquilla, Colombia.—
Larry Seward,
CBS News,
4 May 2026
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On Saturday night, redshirt sophomore Caden McDonald went 4-for-5 with two doubles, two home runs and six RBIs and threw three scoreless innings out of the bullpen, allowing only one hit, in the Gators’ 10-5 win at Oklahoma.—
Mitch Light,
New York Times,
4 May 2026
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Right fielder Zane Kelly went 5-for-7 in the three games with three doubles, a home run, five RBIs and five runs scored.—
Bill Center,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 May 2026
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The setting is a place of deep, almost painful beauty that will bear witness to the unspeakable horrors of humanity, writ large by a group of once-innocent boys who are stand-ins for the depravity of the rest of us.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
4 May 2026
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Visual effects costs, for example, would be cut by 50%, with savings reaching 70% for background actors and stand-ins.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
1 Apr. 2026
Verb
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But then, the authors say, the physics takes over in a highly predictable process.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
2 May 2026
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Marve takes over for Robert Livingston — now with the Denver Broncos — and Marion steps in for Pat Shurmur.—
Pat Graham,
The Orlando Sentinel,
11 Apr. 2026
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The free-agent signings of Quay Walker and Nakobe Dean form a strong tandem, but none of their current backups saw much playing time in 2025.—
Sam Warren,
New York Times,
1 May 2026
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Meanwhile, the CEOs and representatives of all the involved companies—Anthropic, which makes Claude; Railway, the cloud service provider that hosted the backups; and PocketOS—are pointing fingers at each other.—
Alan Henry,
PC Magazine,
1 May 2026
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“Understudies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/understudies. Accessed 9 May. 2026.
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