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Fan discourse after defeats is rarely filled with nuance, but Gordon’s display was sharply in focus, against the backdrop of a tough few months.—
Harry De Cosemo,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025 -
Today, government anxieties about historical discourse have resurfaced.—
Time,
Time,
20 May 2025
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Similar discussions are occurring in more than a dozen states, including Maryland, Illinois, California, New York, Minnesota and Colorado, according to interviews with organizers and recordings of the meetings.—
Hannah Allam,
ProPublica,
31 May 2025
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Jack Lang Botafogo Another Brazilian side who have no interest in, and have had no discussions over, signing Ronaldo.—
The Athletic UK Staff,
New York Times,
31 May 2025
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Previous studies have indicated that pure-breed cats are more likely to carry the long-type gene. Of the cats in the study, many of the mixed breed felines were former strays, suggesting that rescue cats may be more vocal.—
Ian Randall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 May 2025
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The law was written to address the mounting issue of plastic pollution in the environment and the growing number of studies showing the ubiquity of microplastic pollution in the human body — such as in the brain, blood, heart tissue, testicles, lungs and various other organs.—
Susanne Rust,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2025
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This article has been updated with additional information.—
Anna Commander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 May 2025
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In an article published Tuesday in The New England Journal of Medicine, Vinay Prasad, the FDA’s vaccine division chief, and Martin Makery, the agency’s commissioner, said the FDA is changing its process for approving COVID boosters for healthy Americans under 65.—
Jenna Anderson,
Health,
21 May 2025
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There are some things which cannot be given away in dialogue, that cannot come from exposition without risking suspension of disbelief, of losing the audience.—
Rachel Elspeth Gross,
Forbes.com,
25 May 2025
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Despite what the Rani says, this episode is just exposition.—
Jennifer Zhan,
Vulture,
24 May 2025
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Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture was not only a manual of the building arts but a treatise on how to extend and consolidate the Roman Empire, and lent itself all too well to the autocratic ambitions of Renaissance princes.—
Ingrid D. Rowland,
The New York Review of Books,
24 Apr. 2025
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His work is not a treatise on structural inevitability but an exploration of how human frailty, political misjudgment and moral decay can combine to unleash catastrophe.—
Andrew Latham,
The Conversation,
15 Apr. 2025
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This essay is adapted from Jonathan Zittrain’s forthcoming book on humanity simultaneously gaining power and losing control.—
Jonathan L. Zittrain,
The Atlantic,
21 May 2025
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Every element, including essays, recommendation letters and extracurriculars, should reinforce the student’s identity and direction and be presented in an authentic, personal voice.—
Heather Wishart-Smith,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
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Images of the orb show a silver-colored sphere about the size of a bowling ball covered in what appears to be foreign text and drawings.—
Hollie Silverman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 May 2025
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The father of two had told the boy’s mother via text that the child hurt himself while riding his bike, the L.A. County district attorney’s office said in a May 2023 statement.—
Connor Sheets,
Los Angeles Times,
25 May 2025
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“Prolegomenon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prolegomenon. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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