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For one, action bias is not always bad — sometimes things genuinely need to get done, not waffled over.—
Aiko Bethea,
Big Think,
22 Apr. 2026 -
During that stretch, Davis has waffled between hopeless and hopeful on a weekly basis.—
Jack Flemming,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Apr. 2026
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During Saturday’s Kentucky Derby, Repole will attempt to capture a prize that has eluded his team at Repole Stable.—
Jerry Brewer,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2026
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Engineering an efficient, affordable solar-power car has eluded automotive enthusiasts for decades.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
29 Apr. 2026
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But after being shunned by head coach Thomas Frank, his confidence looks low, a state of mind that wasn’t helped by putting his penalty over the bar in Wales’ World Cup play-off shootout defeat by Bosnia & Herzegovina in March.—
Matt Woosnam,
New York Times,
21 Apr. 2026
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Given this, the bigger question is why the word hasn’t been shunned by the remaining 80 percent of us.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Apr. 2026
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Garcia sprinted off exiting through a side entrance and evaded authorities until cops nabbed him on March 25, 2026.—
Emma Seiwell,
New York Daily News,
25 Apr. 2026
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Gutiérrez worries that Trump’s eagerness for a trophy that has evaded 12 Democratic and Republican presidents could get the better of him.—
Joshua Goodman,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Apr. 2026
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Minutes into the execution, the team warden briefly flicked Hitchcock‘s face and yelled his name twice and shook his shoulders.—
Jeffrey Collins,
Sun Sentinel,
30 Apr. 2026
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Bukele shook off his delusions of being the emperor of social media and abandoned his bullying tactics in the face of the biggest bully.—
Óscar Martínez,
The Dial,
30 Apr. 2026
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Marquees in the 1960s pitched violent revenge movies like Bonnie and Clyde but also hedged with Mary Poppins.—
Peter Bart,
Deadline,
23 Apr. 2026
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The departure of Matt Roy was hedged somewhat by the signing of Joel Edmundson two summers ago, but replacing Vladislav Gavrikov and Jordan Spence with Brian Dumoulin and Cody Ceci while Drew Doughty, 36 and in his 18th season, grays and frays has proven highly counterproductive.—
Andrew Knoll,
Daily News,
18 Apr. 2026
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The White House has reportedly equivocated its support of Means in recent weeks.—
Dan Vergano,
Scientific American,
16 Apr. 2026
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Brooks, for his part, equivocated … A bout of frantic rebranding ensued.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Apr. 2026
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Adolph Ochs, publisher of The New York Times from 1896 until his death in 1935, eschewed bylines until the 1920s when the paper’s position on the issue began changing, as did that of many other publications.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
27 Apr. 2026
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For one thing, his coach, the grand master Vishnu Prasanna, eschewed computer chess engines for young players.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
26 Apr. 2026
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“Yo-yoed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yo-yoed. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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