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The focus is on teaching and learning with a new playbook and minute but important details such as adjusting his footwork when receiving the snap.—
Brad Biggs,
Chicago Tribune,
21 May 2025 -
While some tariffs have been paused or adjusted since early April, many remain in effect.—
Catherine Muccigrosso,
Charlotte Observer,
21 May 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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Excerpt adapted from Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI, by Karen Hao.—
Karen Hao,
Wired News,
21 May 2025
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As the warmer part of spring approaches, many gardeners are readying their warm-season vegetable starts, slowly acclimating them to the outdoors and preparing them for transplant.—
Anthony Reardon,
Kansas City Star,
13 May 2025
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Kurtz got the news Monday that he’d be called up, arrived in Sacramento on Tuesday to get acclimated to his new home ballpark and was then formally called up to the majors Wednesday.—
Mathew Miranda,
Sacbee.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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Ex-coaches like Jose Mourinho and Sir Alex Ferguson would use outbursts to shape a particular narrative or obscure a vulnerability.—
Zak Garner-Purkis,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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Marseille is a port city, constantly in motion; immigration waves from North Africa, Italy and Corsica have shaped much of its modern cultural fabric, and now young people from cities across Europe, lured by a less expensive cost of living and easy access to nature, are coming in droves.—
Lily Radziemski,
New York Times,
29 May 2025
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Humans acclimatize through infrastructure and behavior as well.—
Umair Irfan,
Vox,
7 Dec. 2018
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So that is going to be interesting to see teenagers keeping a secret and trying to acclimatize and get better.—
Jackie Strause,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Apr. 2025
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Trump was given 10 days to put the injunction into effect, per the order accompanying the ruling.—
Chad de Guzman,
Time,
30 May 2025
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Moira puts Morck in charge of the initiative, sending him down to a glorified bathroom in a subbasement, providing no additional resources and moving the budget into other underserved departments.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
29 May 2025
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Rather than having a fitness room with a few treadmills and weights, complexes will have pickleball courts, yoga studios, saunas, weight rooms and tracks, spread across multiple floors and tailored to different needs.—
Caleb McCullough,
Chicago Tribune,
25 May 2025
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With the entire city in play, artists and locations could be specifically tailored to each other.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
25 May 2025
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Due to its enormous economy and population, automakers have conformed to California’s rules.—
Tony Briscoe,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2025
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Many of these clothes are displayed on models whose bodies conform to (and are sometimes edited to promote) hyper-idealized body standards.—
Lila Shroff,
The Atlantic,
22 May 2025
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