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Below, The Hollywood Reporter breaks down the brief first look to glean scene-by-scene reveals.
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Cameron K McEwan, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Dec. 2024
This stands in contrast to the 1969 fossil, which preserves just the leaves, limiting what information could be gleaned about the plant.
—Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
Then comes the intensive work of assessing studies’ quality, extracting relevant data from works that make the cut, analyzing data to glean insights, and writing a cogent narrative that sums up the past while looking to the future.
—IEEE Spectrum, 18 Dec. 2024
The sales helped spark a scandal, however, when Covid-19 tanked the stock market, leading to suggestions that Loeffler traded on nonpublic information gleaned from her position in the Senate.
—Dan Alexander, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
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Cameron K McEwan, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Dec. 2024
This stands in contrast to the 1969 fossil, which preserves just the leaves, limiting what information could be gleaned about the plant.
—Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
Then comes the intensive work of assessing studies’ quality, extracting relevant data from works that make the cut, analyzing data to glean insights, and writing a cogent narrative that sums up the past while looking to the future.
—IEEE Spectrum, 18 Dec. 2024
The sales helped spark a scandal, however, when Covid-19 tanked the stock market, leading to suggestions that Loeffler traded on nonpublic information gleaned from her position in the Senate.
—Dan Alexander, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
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But as decorators on Monday put the finishing touches on gathering rooms, draping them in the colors of the Colombian flag, in Port-au-Prince, the capital, the judicial process around the president’s murder was moving painstakingly slow.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
22 Jan. 2025
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What To Know Several online videos show supporters gathering outside the Central Detention Facility in Washington D.C. on Monday evening.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
22 Jan. 2025
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JPMorgan's profit rose to a record high in 2024 as its dealmakers and traders reaped a windfall from rebounding markets in the fourth quarter.—
Pritam Biswas and Nupur Anand,
USA TODAY,
25 Jan. 2025
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Several semiconductor makers should reap the biggest rewards from President Donald Trump’s Stargate artificial intelligence initiative, tech analysts say.—
Samantha Subin,
CNBC,
25 Jan. 2025
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This could be the future of farming, according to Kiera Foti, brand manager at Atlantic Sea Farms, which harvested 1.3m pounds of seaweed last year, the majority of the US seaweed crop.—
Heide Brandes,
thehustle.co,
24 Jan. 2025
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New foliage continues to grow after the initial leaves are harvested.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
23 Jan. 2025
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One aspect of these raids elicits broad agreement: Their effect was to sow fear.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Jan. 2025
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Such unsupported claims around a lack of independence or integrity of health authorities are precisely what helps to sow seeds of distrust amongst the public—a 2023 Pew Research Centre survey found that trust in scientists in the U.S. has dropped by 14% since 2019.—
Simon Williams,
TIME,
22 Jan. 2025
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“Glean.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glean. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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