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This workhorse pan is completely nonstick—perfect for beginners—holds just enough food for one, and comes in an array of fun colors too.
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Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 21 Oct. 2024
Even SpaceX’s workhorse rocket, the Falcon 9, which was responsible for SpaceX doing 90% of U.S. launches in 2023, can’t carry more than 50,265 pounds to low earth orbit when its booster is reused.
—Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2024
Landing rocket boosters after flight is a feat that SpaceX mastered with its smaller workhorse rocket, the Falcon 9.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN, 13 Oct. 2024
Emirates is the largest user of the 777 jet family, a long-distance workhorse whose original success has been clouded by delays to its successor and the crisis engulfing Boeing’s smaller 737 cash cow over safety and quality issues.
—Reuters, NBC News, 15 Oct. 2024
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Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 21 Oct. 2024
Even SpaceX’s workhorse rocket, the Falcon 9, which was responsible for SpaceX doing 90% of U.S. launches in 2023, can’t carry more than 50,265 pounds to low earth orbit when its booster is reused.
—Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2024
Landing rocket boosters after flight is a feat that SpaceX mastered with its smaller workhorse rocket, the Falcon 9.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN, 13 Oct. 2024
Emirates is the largest user of the 777 jet family, a long-distance workhorse whose original success has been clouded by delays to its successor and the crisis engulfing Boeing’s smaller 737 cash cow over safety and quality issues.
—Reuters, NBC News, 15 Oct. 2024
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The composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, that warhorse of English traditionalism, is mentioned six times, and his plangent music—invoking a lost, idyllic England; a greener, more pleasant land—could easily be the novel’s soundtrack.Charles McGrath, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2024
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At 33, Watt is young enough not to be tired of even the most familiar rock radio warhorses.Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2024
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But since 2010, changes in the populations that were migrating, and the failure of Congress to update the system with new legal channels for refugees and laborers, have made asylum the default access for migrants coming to the southwest border.Julia Preston, Foreign Affairs, 25 Oct. 2024
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Much like his 19th century predecessors, protection offers Trump an appeal to diverse constituencies: manufacturing interests, union laborers, declining industrial towns in swing states, voters without college educations and access to tech jobs.Bruce J. Schulman / Made by History, TIME, 24 Oct. 2024
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Osprey Poco Plus Child Carrier for $240 ($80 off) Parent or packhorse?Drew Zieff, Outside Online, 16 July 2024
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In 1811 Charles’s 21-year-old father loaded a white stallion and a packhorse with baskets of Champagne and set off for Moscow, nearly 2,000 miles away.Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2021
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Among this group of donors are CEOs, lawyers and racehorse owners.Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 28 Oct. 2024
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These pastures raise many of the state’s famous Kentucky Derby racehorses.Symiah Dorsey, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2024
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Pressure mounts in Israel for hostage deal The articles were published days after six Israeli hostages were found dead in a tunnel in Gaza, sparking Israeli protests and outrage at Netanyahu, who the families of some hostages see as sabotaging a cease-fire deal for his own political gain.Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2024
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The 150 lumens, the ability to focus or broaden the beam with a simple adjustment, and the easy-swivel mount combine to do a great job lighting up the trail.Lisa Jhung, Outside Online, 2 Nov. 2024
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In a country with one of the planet’s biggest pension pools, where worker contributions are mandatory, everyday savers are picking up the tab when stock prices decline.Owen Tripp, Fortune Asia, 24 Oct. 2024
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Dansko Berry Slip-on Mule Clogs $140 $94 at Amazon Dansko clogs are beloved by nurses and hospitality workers everywhere for their comfortable footbed and anti-slip sole.Kelsey Glennon, Travel + Leisure, 24 Oct. 2024
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One Studios International is getting on its trotters through its eye-catchingly titled doc If Pigs Could Talk.Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 17 Oct. 2024
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The steaming pigeon and trotter pie at St. John comes to mind, as does a haunch of venison, served on lush spring greens, at the aforementioned Palmerston.Will Hawkes, Saveur, 29 May 2024
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Not only does the peon and con man Tom end up refashioning himself as the rich and carefree Dickie, but Highsmith’s novel itself was a retelling of Henry James’s The Ambassadors.Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 19 Apr. 2024
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Not afraid but brave, not weak but empowered, not peons but partners.Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2024
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“Workhorse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workhorse. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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