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Four much lower buildings would face one another across the ginkgos: on one side, a department store and a science museum; on the other, a conference center and a concert hall.—
Ian Parker,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025 -
Shoppers pass a Cartier luxury store, operated by Cie. Financiere Richemont SA, in the Galeries Lafayette SA luxury department store in Paris, France.—
Karen Gilchrist,
CNBC,
16 Jan. 2025
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Nubby quilts warm up the bedrooms, a sultry Soane fabric dresses up a thrift shop–found sofa, and an original soapstone sink rough up the new mudroom.—
Jennifer Fernandez,
Architectural Digest,
20 Jan. 2025
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Room, board and group therapy are free, in exchange for which residents work at the many businesses the academy runs, including thrift shops, a construction company and a moving and storage business.—
Jan Hoffman,
New York Times,
18 Jan. 2025
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Dana Taylor: Art resembling that created by Indigenous people has shown up in chain stores like Urban Outfitters and online retailers such as Amazon.—
Dana Taylor,
USA TODAY,
6 Jan. 2025
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If the thought of throngs of shoppers in crowded high street chain stores fills you with horror, there is another side to London Christmas shopping.—
Michele Robson,
Forbes,
2 Dec. 2024
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Here are just some of the everyday items that would be affected if duties on goods from China, Canada and Mexico take effect. Miami, Five Below, discount variety store merchandise.—
Melissa Repko,Gabrielle Fonrouge,Michael Wayland,Amelia Lucas,
CNBC,
20 Jan. 2025
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By the late 1990s, both Woolworth and McCrory’s landed in bankruptcy court after variety stores fell out of favor.—
Vicki M. Young,
Sourcing Journal,
3 Sep. 2019
Noun
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Salem, circa 1955: Before the opening of Walmart, many small-town main streets were home to a Ben Franklin dime store, one of which was under the franchise that gave Sam Walton his start in Newport, 1945.—
Ray Hanley,
arkansasonline.com,
4 Oct. 2024
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Werewolf Lawyer has its own distinct look, a pulp paperback straight from the golden age of dime store novels done by Ian Klarer.—
Jef Rouner,
Chron,
14 Sep. 2024
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Kharkiv itself has been pounded by glide bombs that can deliver hundreds of kilograms of explosives — most recently, a strike at a hardware superstore that killed at least 12 people.—
Valerie Hopkins Nanna Heitmann,
New York Times,
29 May 2024
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The clip received more than 3,900 shares and 4.1 million views on X. In the footage a young girl dressed in pink walks along the chilled aisle of a superstore, throwing products as bewildered customers look on.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
3 Dec. 2024
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The cease-fire and hostage deal involves Hamas gradually releasing 33 Israeli hostages held in Gaza over the next six weeks in exchange for Israel releasing nearly 2,000 prisoners and detainees from the West Bank and Gaza.—
Greg Norman,
Fox News,
20 Jan. 2025
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While there are many, many models of potential dark matter candidates, many interact with regular particles through exchanges involving the Higgs boson — a fundamental particle that interacts with almost all other particles and, through those interactions, imbues those particles with mass.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
20 Jan. 2025
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