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Former Canadiens captain Yvan Cournoyer entered the Bell Centre from that plaza holding a torch, walked it into the building and the arena bowl, setting off the Canadiens’ traditional playoff ritual of the ice catching fire, and the building roared.—
Arpon Basu,
New York Times,
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But a radioactive cloud was wafting across Europe, setting off alarms in a Swedish laboratory nearly seven hundred miles away and slowly sickening tens of thousands of people.—
Lizzie Johnson,
New Yorker,
25 Apr. 2026
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Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is pumping up his reelection bid at age 80 by looking jacked in workouts that his critics say are more popular than the man himself.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
22 Apr. 2026
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Taking his place in one of the Broadhurst Theatre’s box seats, DJ Griddlebone wastes no time pumping up the crowd and welcoming all and sundry Jellicles to the stage.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
7 Apr. 2026
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For some among the new generation of answering their country's call to arms, a bitter lesson from Dutch history is motivating them.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
29 Apr. 2026
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LeVota also cited campaign finance as a factor motivating his exit from the race.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
24 Apr. 2026
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If the President’s Epstein stonewalling initially enraged his base, the issue is arguably now more animating for Democrats than for Republicans.—
Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
24 Apr. 2026
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That gap between demographic reality and institutional influence is the animating tension behind a trip spanning Algeria, Cameroon, Angola, and then Equatorial Guinea.—
Yinka Adegoke,
semafor.com,
20 Apr. 2026
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Its trillion-parameter system uses a Mixture-of-Experts approach, activating only a fraction of parameters per task.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Apr. 2026
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This suggests that activating a stress response siphons energy away from long-term maintenance processes.—
Jasna Hodžić,
Big Think,
22 Apr. 2026
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For Ioane, that comes in the form of driving a defensive lineman into the ground to clear a path for his quarterback or running back.—
Jeff Zrebiec,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2026
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But the judge said that Hallford made credible claims of being a victim of domestic violence and that her ex-husband, Jon Hallford, was the driving force in their relationship.—
Colleen Slevin,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Apr. 2026
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Day sessions usually include something energizing like yoga or mat Pilates, while evenings offer stretching and meditation.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
29 Apr. 2026
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This can create a connection that’s deeply magnetic, energizing and all-consuming.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
27 Apr. 2026
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Alva now appears in the wanderlust-inducing campaign for Burberry X Hunza G unveiled here today, along with Sacha Quenby and Simone Ashley.—
Kerry McDermott,
Vogue,
27 Apr. 2026
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The latest event set to douse envy-inducing spam of the glitterati across our social media feeds?—
Connor Sturges,
Condé Nast Traveler,
26 Apr. 2026
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“Motiving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/motiving. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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