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Kansas City Current players spent time with the Lynx players in their quick two-day visit, taking a break from kicking soccer balls to swap jerseys and shoot hoops.—
PJ Green
April 28,
Kansas City Star,
28 Apr. 2026 -
These days, nobody’s kicking Cantens out of FIU’s gym.—
Walter Villa,
Miami Herald,
27 Apr. 2026
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But coyotes have been steadily gaining territory, booting foxes out of any space wild enough for coyotes to live.—
Tribune News Service,
Baltimore Sun,
21 Apr. 2026
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Those still using a 486 for one reason or another will still be able to run older Linux kernels and vintage operating systems—running old software without emulation or virtualization is one of the few reasons to keep booting up hardware this old.—
Andrew Cunningham,
ArsTechnica,
7 Apr. 2026
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“Hoofing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hoofing. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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