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Adapted for television by Adolescence co-creator, Emmy winner Jack Thorne, in Lord of the Flies, innocence descends into savagery when a group of English schoolboys becomes desert island castaways.—
Denise Petski,
Deadline,
6 Apr. 2026 -
Each group would later attend a tribal council and vote out the eighth, ninth, and tenth castaways.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA Today,
1 Apr. 2026
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Mulhouse Public Prosecutor Nicolas Heitz speaks to the press after a boy was discovered naked and malnourished on a pile of rubbish in a van where he had been kept locked up, in Hagenbach, eastern France, on April 10, 2026.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2026
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Stony rubbish, dead trees, the odd corpse in the garden—nothing that couldn’t be absorbed back into the earth.—
Caroline Fraser,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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Slafkovsky’s third goal of the game came with 19 seconds left in Montreal’s power play on a shot from the left circle.—
Eduardo Encina,
The Orlando Sentinel,
20 Apr. 2026
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Forty seconds into the second stanza, Wedgewood produced another nice save on a wrister by hard-charging Alex Laferriere.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
20 Apr. 2026
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