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In the days immediately before two University of South Florida doctoral students mysteriously vanished, Hisham Abugharbieh asked ChatGPT a series of queries.—
Dan Sullivan,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 Apr. 2026 -
But much of that legacy vanished last year when Blue Hills locked its doors.—
Andrew Brown,
Hartford Courant,
27 Apr. 2026
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Runner Ajay Haridasse, a local college student, was only about a thousand feet from the finish line on Boylston Street when his legs just gave out.—
Scott Simon,
NPR,
25 Apr. 2026
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Businesses owners who knew the victims also gave out food to people impacted.—
Doug Williams,
CBS News,
23 Apr. 2026
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Suddenly, the bad energy from losing nine of 10 games entering that stretch had evaporated.—
Josh Yohe,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026
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In that moment, all the troubles that Springsteen and the audience had commiserated over during the first third of the concert evaporated into a place of uninhibited, joyous nostalgia.—
Ben Crandell,
Sun Sentinel,
24 Apr. 2026
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Three minutes into the flight, the booster switched off its engines and fell away from New Glenn’s upper stage, powered by two BE-3U engines burning liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
19 Apr. 2026
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Sooner or later, those fans and hands fell away, and the statues remained, growing less and less presentable.—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Apr. 2026
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The 2025 event in Virginia helped bolster the coin's value for a time, but interest in the currency again tapered off.—
Lucien Bruggeman,
ABC News,
21 Apr. 2026
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What initially felt like a meteoric rise tapered off into a slow burn.—
Vince Aletti,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2026
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“Petered (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/petered%20%28out%29. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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