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About two-thirds of them have been devoted to building out the Starlink network in low Earth orbit, by far the biggest satellite constellation ever assembled.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
15 Mar. 2025 -
The rate of annual sea level rise has more than doubled since the satellite record began in 1993 -- with sea levels rising at least 4 inches since then, according to NASA.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
14 Mar. 2025
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First-time head coach Campo was a good company man, and solid defensive coordinator.—
Mac Engel,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
25 Jan. 2025
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In 2014, Microsoft surprised people by promoting the ultimate company man, Satya Nadella, to CEO.—
Steven Levy,
WIRED,
21 Nov. 2024
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Tatlin scholarship is whispery on his time in Kyiv, for the excellent reason that Stalin’s minions torched most evidence of it.—
Jackson Arn,
The New Yorker,
10 Mar. 2025
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But the largest driving force behind the return-to-work mandates, suggest the early scholarship, is CEOs feeling lonely without minions.—
Dan Vergano,
Scientific American,
12 Feb. 2025
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Yet this trust was soon eroded as slave rebellions increased throughout the Americas, and, in 1802, Black Americans were banned from carrying mail until Reconstruction.—
Sarah Prager,
JSTOR Daily,
12 Mar. 2025
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Galveston’s past closely mirrors New Orleans', with ports on the Transatlantic slave route that served a large swath of the American South.—
Mariah Tyler,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Mar. 2025
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Back in Montana, every trip Jacob and company take to Bozeman and back is inevitably fraught with peril — if not instigated by dastardly rich guy Donald Whitfield (Timothy Dalton) and/or his henchman Banner Creighton (Jerome Flynn), then by the pitiless nature of extreme weather.—
Matt Brennan,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Mar. 2025
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In Lynch’s festering neo-noir mystery from 1987, Hopper plays a chronic villain perpetually sipping from a tank of amyl nitrate and handing out hits as a way to manipulate his henchmen.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
14 Mar. 2025
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Banner tells Whitfield that he’s lost his sheep herd to parasites, and Whitfield has the nerve to laugh.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
2 Mar. 2025
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According to the Cleveland Clinic, wearing contacts for too long, improperly storing or cleaning them, and wearing them while swimming or showering can increase your risk of contracting the parasite.—
Vanessa Etienne,
People.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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The cushions have a two-inch thick sponge interior that is plush yet supportive, and they’re covered in removable, water-resistant fabric cases.—
Shea Simmons,
People.com,
11 Mar. 2025
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Glass sponges are found along the deep sea, providing a hiding place for small critters along the seafloor.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
7 Mar. 2025
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The Liberals have been able to stop their opponent Pierre Poilievre’s momentum by painting him as a MAGA lackey.—
Helen Lewis,
The Atlantic,
16 Mar. 2025
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One of Knuckles’ many lackeys ultimately finds Rose by … going to her apartment building, where her name is prominently displayed on her mailbox?—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
6 Feb. 2025
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“Running dog.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/running%20dog. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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