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Noun
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L'Agence said this was meant to represent the company's international expansion.—
Alyssa Goldberg,
USA TODAY,
15 Feb. 2025 -
His firm designed the Marine Mammal Pavilion, a large and colorful expansion to the National Aquarium in Baltimore.—
Jacques Kelly,
Baltimore Sun,
15 Feb. 2025
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Trump, who took office on January 20, campaigned heavily on the economy, vowing to reduce inflation and impose tariffs on some of the country's closest trading partners like Mexico and Canada, citing concerns over drugs, immigration, and trade deficits.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
8 Feb. 2025
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His tariffs and immigration crackdown could push up prices, potentially rekindling the inflation that turned many U.S. voters against President Joe Biden and helped return Trump to the White House.—
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8 Feb. 2025
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Serbia’s authoritarian leader should be riding high, lifted by economic growth that is four times the European average, falling unemployment and steadily rising wages.—
Andrew Higgins,
New York Times,
8 Feb. 2025
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Water sparingly until the plant begins active growth, then resume regular watering and start fertilizing.—
Tim Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Feb. 2025
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In fact, a 2006 follow-up study by the London researchers of both taxi and bus drivers found that years of experience led to enlargement of the hippocampus in taxi drivers, but not bus drivers.—
Christopher M. Worsham,
TIME,
14 Jan. 2025
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Netanyahu underwent prostate removal surgery after he was diagnosed with an infection stemming from a benign prostate enlargement, according to reputable news reports.—
Andre Byik,
USA TODAY,
1 Jan. 2025
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Schedule creep has been happening for many years, as detailed in this excellent BBC News explainer from 2019.—
Suzanne Rowan Kelleher,
Forbes,
4 Jan. 2025
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That horrible finale, the revelations that Devin was a big ol’ creep who should have never been on the season at all, whatever was/is happening between Jenn and Sasha from Dancing With the Stars, the goddamned election, the film Emilia Peréz.—
Ali Barthwell,
Vulture,
28 Jan. 2025
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In what’s known as a differential amplification process, an amplifier takes in signals from all three electrodes but ignores signals that appear in both the reference and the measuring electrodes, and only amplifies the signal that represents the difference between the two measuring electrodes.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
3 Feb. 2025
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Using high-quality components such as two high-end internal DACs and high-power amplification with a high-gain mode, the Retro Nano can drive all kinds of earphones, IEMs and even over-the-ear headphones, providing the kind of sound quality that beats many smartphones and laptops.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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This produces gases like hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and methane, which can cause abdominal pain, bloating, distension, and diarrhea.18 Several methods can reduce compounds that cause gastrointestinal discomfort.—
Merve Ceylan,
Health,
11 Feb. 2025
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Wear Loose-Fitting Clothes Endometriosis can cause bloating, which is when your abdomen increases in size, and distension, which is a feeling of uncomfortable fullness in your abdomen.23 A lot of people with endometriosis refer to this as endo belly.—
Sarah Bence,
Health,
28 Dec. 2024
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With their 2010 Super Bowl victory a one-off triumph, so far at least, and the team experiencing a fallow period since, their rise and fall is reminiscent of Leicester City, which in 2023 became only the second former Premier League champion to subsequently get relegated.—
Eduardo Tansley,
The Athletic,
17 Feb. 2025
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Byron’s rise to the top of his sport has been a wild and unpredictable ride in itself.—
Edgar Thompson,
Orlando Sentinel,
17 Feb. 2025
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“Escalation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/escalation. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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