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Instead, as Quick reported, Dundon has already been canvassing the basketball world for Splitter’s possible replacement while clearly not caring about the awful optics.—
Sam Amick,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026 -
The replacement was made possible by the generous donation of an anonymous person, done in honor of his history-loving deceased wife.—
Janet Kusterer,
Baltimore Sun,
26 Apr. 2026
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Long engaged with questions of violence, displacement, and the politics of gender, Malani here turns to the myth of Orestes to probe the historical roots of power and its persistence in the present.—
Eana Kim,
ARTnews.com,
27 Apr. 2026
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Turnout there was 23%, but officials cited challenges including large-scale displacement and outdated civil registry records.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
26 Apr. 2026
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McMahon started the night on the bench and came in for Amed Rosario as a defensive substitution in the top of the eighth.—
Fiifi Frimpong,
New York Daily News,
18 Apr. 2026
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Rather than force a substitution that compromised quality—or lean more heavily on synthetics—the company began to reconsider its approach.—
Alexandra Harrell,
Footwear News,
13 Apr. 2026
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The design also features guide tubes made of Q12 alloy to resist fuel assembly bowing and lateral deformation.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Apr. 2026
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This deformation and discoloration are attributed to the excessive heat some bricks experience in the firing process.—
Tim Carter,
Hartford Courant,
25 Apr. 2026
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Well, first of all, the news distortion stuff is also nonsense, right?—
Josef Adalian,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2026
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The other is a deliberate distortion.—
Baltimore Sun,
Twin Cities,
26 Apr. 2026
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Ouroboros-like, Erdrich is in continual, self-devouring motion and thus presents a kind of constancy of transmutation — identity itself becomes a variable in the endless calculation of renewal.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Mar. 2026
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If that writer is hailed as a once-in-a-generation voice, the reputation will undergo transmutations.—
Hermione Hoby,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
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The history of religion, with its thousands of schisms and reformations, is full of pilgrims who, rather than discard their relationship with their sacred text, have found purpose, clarity, and community through defiance.—
Séamas O'Reilly,
Vulture,
26 Mar. 2026
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Call it a hush puppy reformation, and the results are heavenly: crisp orbs with a surge of rich corn flavor and just a hint of jalapeño heat.—
Robert F. Moss,
Southern Living,
9 Mar. 2026
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But there also are other elements of the revision that play to the very essence of the Heat anti-tank approach, an approach in place since Riley’s 1995 arrival as franchise steward.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
30 Apr. 2026
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Over time, this buildup can act as an insulating barrier, potentially degrading the electrical signal and rendering the device less effective or requiring surgical revision.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Apr. 2026
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“Supplantation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supplantation. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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