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That has suddenly changed in the playoffs.—
Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 Apr. 2026 -
The Canadian Radio-television Commission was established in 1968 as a federal agency to oversee broadcasting in Canada and in 1976 had its powers expanded to include telecommunications (and the name changed accordingly to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission [CRTC]).—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
27 Apr. 2026
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While most of Maryland has been facing some level of drought since last year, conditions have fluctuated, improving in June 2025 and worsening in recent days.—
JT Moodee Lockman,
CBS News,
23 Apr. 2026
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The poll was conducted from April 16 through Monday, as oil prices fluctuated and Americans spent more at the gas pump.—
Linley Sanders,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2026
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But the War on Terror persisted and mutated into nightmares in Iraq and Afghanistan, and then Syria, which unleashed that darkness in the form of terrorist states and a refugee crisis that spread anti-Muslim and anti-migrant hatred to Europe, the United States, and beyond.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Apr. 2026
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According to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, BRCA2 is a gene that, when mutated, can increase a person’s lifetime risk of breast and other cancers, including ovarian, prostate and pancreatic.—
Samantha Agate,
Miami Herald,
28 Apr. 2026
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The loss in at the Commerce City, Colorado, stadium snapped a three-game shutout streak for the Denver Summit (1-3-2).—
ABC News,
ABC News,
26 Apr. 2026
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So were four others in a 7-4 Bombers loss that snapped an eight-game winning streak.—
Gary Phillips,
Hartford Courant,
26 Apr. 2026
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But those are just averages, and prices posted at Southeast Michigan gas stations have varied widely even in the same community.—
Paula Wethington,
CBS News,
30 Apr. 2026
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The different plans have varied monthly or annual payments, and each company offers discounts.—
Caroline Ernst,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2026
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In the 1950s and the early 1960s, concerns shifted to include more pragmatic approaches to developing and sustaining domestic cultural industries and encouraging technological development.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
27 Apr. 2026
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There’s also a perception that the product has shifted in a way that doesn’t align with this customer’s needs.—
Maliha Shoaib,
Vogue,
27 Apr. 2026
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The show that began as a bottom-up look at the cutthroat world of finance has metamorphosed into something more dismal.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
12 Jan. 2026
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The pressure and heat of deep burial and tectonic events over eons have transformed the silt into a hard metamorphic rock, and the microbial carbon in it has metamorphosed into graphite.—
Howard Lee,
ArsTechnica,
11 Aug. 2025
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The foundation of making our children our priority has never wavered.—
Sarah Sotoodeh,
FOXNews.com,
26 Apr. 2026
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For years, the Dolphins front office wavered between being a big, physical team built around the draft to a small, fast team built in free agency.—
Dave Hyde,
Sun Sentinel,
25 Apr. 2026
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“Turned around.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/turned%20around. Accessed 3 May. 2026.
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