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The Brown Ballers are the first true Dream Team of Indian basketball – 12 players who risk their careers, reputations, and identities to rewrite the rules of who belongs in the game.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
28 Apr. 2026 -
The Justice Department argued that her case belongs before the Merit Systems Protection Board and not in federal district court.—
Aaron Katersky,
ABC News,
28 Apr. 2026
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Away goes the space normally occupied by pickup trucks and Weber grills.—
David Hudnall,
Kansas City Star,
30 Apr. 2026
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From then on, the storytelling goes slack and perfunctory as sharks swarm and chomp on passengers and crew clinging for dear lives on rafts or slabs of plane wreckage.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
30 Apr. 2026
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“Fits (in).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fits%20%28in%29. Accessed 4 May. 2026.
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