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The new advice is to test anyone with a significant bird flu exposure, such as an unprotected worker who’s been splashed in the face with raw milk on a dairy farm with known H5N1 infections in the herds.
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Erika Edwards, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
Sheppard and Trujillo were the first to notice that the orbits of a handful of known trans-Neptunian objects were all strangely clustered together.
—Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
Instead of an endless cloud bill, enterprises want a definable and known CAPEX.
—Thomas Cornely, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Only ten or so known individuals remain in the wild there, making the na’u one of the rarest plants in the world.
—Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
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Erika Edwards, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
Sheppard and Trujillo were the first to notice that the orbits of a handful of known trans-Neptunian objects were all strangely clustered together.
—Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
Instead of an endless cloud bill, enterprises want a definable and known CAPEX.
—Thomas Cornely, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Only ten or so known individuals remain in the wild there, making the na’u one of the rarest plants in the world.
—Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
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“Known.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/known. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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known
adjective
: generally recognized
a known expert on art
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