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For one, action bias is not always bad — sometimes things genuinely need to get done, not waffled over.—
Aiko Bethea,
Big Think,
22 Apr. 2026 -
During that stretch, Davis has waffled between hopeless and hopeful on a weekly basis.—
Jack Flemming,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Apr. 2026
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Perez’s command eluded him in another shaky outing and the Marlins’ offense fell flat after its initial outburst in a 7-4 loss to the Orioles at loanDepot park.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
7 May 2026
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Luis Arraez doubled with one out off bulk-inning reliever Jesse Scholtens, and Rafael Devers lined a two-out pitch to deep left that eluded Simpson at the wall.—
Marc Topkin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
3 May 2026
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People are entitled to their opinion and nobody should be shunned for it.—
Elizabeth Heckman,
FOXNews.com,
9 May 2026
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The bills do not require developers to build affordable, accessible housing on a statewide basis and the SSMMA says developers have long shunned certain communities in the south suburbs, in Chicago and historically Black and brown communities.—
Jerry Shnay,
Chicago Tribune,
4 May 2026
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Ilango had successfully evaded the decades-old impossibility result.—
Ben Brubaker,
Quanta Magazine,
11 May 2026
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The Knicks have found the very consistency that’s evaded them in the past.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
11 May 2026
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Their struggles are why Buster Posey shook things up by calling up Bryce Eldridge and Jesus Rodriguez.—
Justice delos Santos,
Mercury News,
7 May 2026
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Eventually, the Thunder shook off the rust from an eight-day break and went up 31-26 at the end of the first quarter, despite 12 points from James.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
5 May 2026
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EasyJet has also hedged 70% of its summer fuel, leaving the remaining 30% vulnerable to volatile fuel prices.—
Sawdah Bhaimiya,
CNBC,
6 May 2026
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Some within the Republican Party have said Florida should aggressively redraw its map to counter Virginia, although others have hedged.—
Oren Oppenheim,
ABC News,
27 Apr. 2026
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The White House has reportedly equivocated its support of Means in recent weeks.—
Dan Vergano,
Scientific American,
16 Apr. 2026
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Brooks, for his part, equivocated … A bout of frantic rebranding ensued.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Apr. 2026
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Adolph Ochs, publisher of The New York Times from 1896 until his death in 1935, eschewed bylines until the 1920s when the paper’s position on the issue began changing, as did that of many other publications.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
27 Apr. 2026
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For one thing, his coach, the grand master Vishnu Prasanna, eschewed computer chess engines for young players.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
26 Apr. 2026
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“Yo-yoed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yo-yoed. Accessed 12 May. 2026.
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