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Recent Examples of finsOur fish farm worked beautifully right up until the NewCoral molted, growing fins and fangs and one rocky fin, terrorizing the coastline and hunting the NewFish almost to NewExtinction.—Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025 The sharks are another story — their flesh is not well regarded and is often given away, while its fins are considered poor quality for the global shark fin trade.—Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
But, curiously, participants had the highest solve rate when the puzzles appeared in ordinary dreams, not lucid ones.
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Shayla Love,
New Yorker,
1 May 2026
This is easily accomplished by snipping the smaller ones (when a few inches tall) beneath the soil line instead of uprooting them, which could disturb the roots of the single seedling in each cluster.
The group, originally signed to RCA Records, released two albums of bustling synth pop and opened for Harry Styles in the late twenty-tens but was cast off in the early days of the pandemic owing to low sales.
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Dan Stahl,
New Yorker,
1 May 2026
Of course, any company spending tens of billions of dollars on AI hardware will need to demonstrate a return.
There’s an owner whose name’s in there hundreds of times.
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Charles Bethea,
New Yorker,
26 Apr. 2026
Some of the original board members are still involved with the museum, but hundreds more joined the effort, some volunteering, others donating surf boards and memorabilia, and many sharing their stories, including famous surfers from Eddie Aikau, Nat Young, Greg Noll and Donald Takayama.
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Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Apr. 2026
Eating ultraprocessed pancakes for breakfast, chips with lunch, a bag of cookies for a snack and a pizza for dinner could quickly add up.
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Sandee LaMotte,
CNN Money,
29 Apr. 2026
New orders for the specialized and embedded chips that NXP and its peers make—not to be confused with the high-performance AI silicon that gets all the news headlines—are finally rising after a long slump going all the way back to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The average team is now worth four to five billion dollars, with the Warriors valued at around twice that.
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Charles Bethea,
New Yorker,
26 Apr. 2026
This new court filing is a transparent forum-shopping tactic in their scheme to obtain hundreds of millions of dollars from Michael's estate and companies.
LaPour was the preseason Big 12 Pitcher of the Year and got his season off to a strong start against Vanderbilt, giving up two runs off fives hits in five innings of work with five strikeouts.
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Lawrence Dow,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Feb. 2026