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Recent Examples of undocumented
Californian Foundations Recognized at James Beard Awards The James Beard Foundation presented Humanitarian of the Year award to Othón Nolasko and Damián Diaz of No Us Without You, an organization providing food security to undocumented and underserved members of the restaurant industry.
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Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 16 June 2026
Goldman was deported to Russia in the Palmer Raids of 1919—an undocumented immigrant, shipped to obscurity.
—Literary Hub, 15 June 2026
Ending birthright citizenship For many decades, presidential administrations and most legal scholars have agreed that the Constitution grants citizenship to nearly all people born in the United States – including children of undocumented immigrants.
—Aysha Bagchi, USA Today, 14 June 2026
Unlike people whose proficiency in English is low, AAE speakers are not counted as a distinct linguistic group, so the scale of the harm is undocumented.
—Carol Rose Little, The Conversation, 12 June 2026
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Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 16 June 2026
Goldman was deported to Russia in the Palmer Raids of 1919—an undocumented immigrant, shipped to obscurity.
—Literary Hub, 15 June 2026
Ending birthright citizenship For many decades, presidential administrations and most legal scholars have agreed that the Constitution grants citizenship to nearly all people born in the United States – including children of undocumented immigrants.
—Aysha Bagchi, USA Today, 14 June 2026
Unlike people whose proficiency in English is low, AAE speakers are not counted as a distinct linguistic group, so the scale of the harm is undocumented.
—Carol Rose Little, The Conversation, 12 June 2026
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When an audience member posed a hypothetical choice between a flawed but distinctive film and a polished but unremarkable one, Leung said either would do, arguing that cinema’s goal was sincerity, in performance or in a director’s expression, rather than polish.—
Jenny S. Li,
Variety,
20 June 2026
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Ajmera later clarified the question was hypothetical and did not signal any planned leadership changes.—
Zaire Breedlove,
Charlotte Observer,
19 June 2026
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The aerospace company has figured out how to position itself firmly in the middle of the speculative hype of the AI cycle, and numerous financial organizations have amended rules designed to protect retail investors.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
20 June 2026
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CoreWeave, for instance, despite projecting significant revenue, carries a speculative-grade credit rating and substantial debt.—
Dara-Abasi Ita,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
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Some of it’s just apocryphal - things that people want to believe.—
Jim Ryan,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026
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The apocryphal signature was removed by the museum in 2007.—
Tessa Solomon,
ARTnews.com,
21 May 2026
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Before that, the idea of one day becoming king was something distant and theoretical, a concept discussed in books and family history rather than something with immediate relevance to his own life.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
20 June 2026
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This stopped being theoretical just this month.—
Renana Ashkenazi,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
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Other ideas involve arts and crafts projects, or playing imaginary games with her 8-year-old sister.—
Rhitu Chatterjee,
NPR,
19 June 2026
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The Vision Award pays tribute to someone whose creative work has contributed to the renewal of the cinematographic imaginary.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
18 June 2026
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Moore said that no matter how famous a host or a guest is, or how elaborate and slick a production is, an unauthentic product will not resonate with audiences.—
Yahya Salem,
CNN Money,
9 Nov. 2025
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Inaccurate debunks Amid the recycled imagery, authentic pictures of National Guard members sleeping on the floor of a federal building in Los Angeles this week were falsely described as old or unauthentic.—
Emma Li,
CBS News,
11 June 2025
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Carrington, who died in 2011, devoted the final 17 years of her life to creating bronze figures and masks, conjuring her chimeric cast out of the canvas and into our own.—
Tessa Solomon,
ARTnews.com,
13 June 2026
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To overcome the tumor microenvironment, researchers have developed a treatment called chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy, known as CAR-T therapy for short.—
Charles J. Dimitroff,
The Conversation,
12 June 2026
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The businesses that will win with AI aren’t waiting for a mythical moment when the technology handles everything.—
Tomas Gorny,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
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So, why does the 18-year-old, who wears that mythical number for Barcelona — most closely associated with their all-time record scorer and appearance maker Messi — not have the same privilege with La Roja?—
Pol Ballús,
New York Times,
17 June 2026
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“Undocumented.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undocumented. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.
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