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Noun
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The meeting between the two dignitaries will won’t include a livestreamed news conference like those the president has hosted with other international figures.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2026 -
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and other dignitaries were also at the ceremony, which comes ahead of the 25th anniversary of the attacks.—
Philip Marcelo,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Apr. 2026
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These speakers join previously announced eminences from Amazon, Calm, Contextual AI, CoreWeave, Databricks, DataSnipper, Exelon, Glean, Google, Intuit, Rivian, and Serve Robotics.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
17 Nov. 2025
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It was started by Goodall, Desmond Tutu, and other eminences.—
Zach Helfand,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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The list of notables the Showcase has presented over the years could fill a book — though the club’s North Star was always Segal’s beloved bebop.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Apr. 2026
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The cast also boasts notables in Molly Ringwald, Maya Hawke, LeVar Burton and Julia Fox.—
Mark Meszoros,
Twin Cities,
25 Apr. 2026
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Leave the monuments to the developers and let city employees work in a clean, safe and frugal environment.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
25 Apr. 2026
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The exhibition is the brainchild of guest curator Paul Farber, who spent years exploring the meaning of the statue and public monuments — including through his NPR podcasts — before bringing the conversation into the museum.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
25 Apr. 2026
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Eximious had a royal warrant, a seal of approval issued to those supplying goods to royal personages, from then-Prince Charles.—
Bob Goldsborough,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Feb. 2026
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Good historians and talented fiction writers can tease out human qualities from such personages while acknowledging their fundamental distance from our own time.—
Will Collins,
The Washington Examiner,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The meeting between the two dignitaries will won’t include a livestreamed news conference like those the president has hosted with other international figures.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2026
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The large monetary figures Ingoglia unveiled during each news conference came from analyses conducted by the state’s Department of Governmental Efficiency team, or DOGE, which had requested budget information from and visited many municipalities across the state.—
Abigail Hasebroock,
Sun Sentinel,
28 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Downriver from the Shoshone Falls are the Pillar Falls, a low waterfall split by rock pillars.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Apr. 2026
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As their mutual competitiveness grows shockingly ugly, Niall learns to turn Ruben’s Samsonian strength and fury against him, knocking down the pillars of Ruben’s own life.—
Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
24 Apr. 2026
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Paschal’s Restaurant & Bar served as a meeting place for the Civil Rights Movement’s luminaries in the 1950s, while Canton House helped transform Buford Highway into a global dining destination in the 1990s.—
Henri Hollis,
AJC.com,
25 Apr. 2026
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Poet Federico García Lorca, painter Salvador Dalí, and film director Luis Buñuel were among the luminaries to raise a drink at the Palace.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 Apr. 2026
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“Worthies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/worthies. Accessed 3 May. 2026.
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