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as in circumscribing
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as in preserving
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In quick succession, the Court began circumscribing Congress’s ability to define rights and act on its constitutional imagination.—
Duncan Hosie,
The Atlantic,
13 Jan. 2026 -
This wouldn’t be the first time the Court has avoided a head-on fight with the other branches, especially after Congress makes noise about circumscribing its authority.—
Time,
Time,
14 Nov. 2025
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However, the environment in northwest Scotland is more conducive to preserving bone from that period.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
11 June 2026
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The investors are looking at what could emerge on a small section of the IBM Almaden Research Center site while preserving as open space several hundred adjoining acres on the property, which is at 650 Harry Road in south San Jose, city files show.—
George Avalos,
Mercury News,
11 June 2026
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The case has drawn national attention, fueled by debate over Texas self-defense law, questions surrounding race, competing narratives about what happened beneath a Memorial High School team tent and demonstrations outside the Collin County courthouse.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
9 June 2026
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Connecting the two new galleries is a bridge that doubles as space for displaying sculpture, ceramics, and glassware, as well as including a café that provides great views of the surrounding landscape.—
Brian Boucher,
ARTnews.com,
8 June 2026
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Day 8 of picketing More than 100 NYSNA nurses were back out in the brutal cold to picket for an eighth day since the strike started last week.—
Christina Fan,
CBS News,
19 Jan. 2026
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The latter offering involves enclosing chips in casing and readying them to be connected to other circuitry.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
8 June 2026
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The sidewalls connect the beads to the tread, enclosing the tire’s body.—
Jason Fogelson,
AJC.com,
29 May 2026
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Decades of research indicate that psychological flexibility plays an important role in buffering the negative effects of stress and a broad range of mental health disorders like depression and anxiety.—
Joan M. Cook,
Time,
12 May 2026
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The method used in the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) bases lottery rankings on the past two seasons combined, buffering the payoff for any tanking.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
11 May 2026
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But if the situation doesn’t resolve itself by year-end, prices would need to rise much, much further – closing in on $200 a barrel, said Alan Gelder, head of refining, chemicals and oil markets at Wood Mackenzie.—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
12 June 2026
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Meester plays all of this with a convincing lack of self-awareness and hilarious desire to keep the walls from closing in around her.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
29 May 2026
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As countries, companies and nonprofit organizations around the world seek to protect land, conserving precious environmental resources and reducing the effects of climate change, the communities most likely to be displaced are the Indigenous people who have lived there for generations.—
Buket Altınçelep,
The Conversation,
12 June 2026
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The non-profit is dedicated to conserving the land around Big Bear Lake in the San Bernardino Mountains.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
11 June 2026
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“Walling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/walling. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.
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