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happening or beginning not long ago
Recent events have brought attention to the problem. I usually watch that show every week, but I missed the most recent episode. Medical science has made amazing progress in recent decades.
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Recent Examples of recent
By analyzing their breath, the researchers determined the bats primarily used amino acids found in recent blood meals as the primary energy source to power their run.
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Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 7 Nov. 2024
Interestingly enough, aside from the clear win in Photoshop, the rest of the M4 Pro's small victories were in single-core performance tests, which lines up with Apple's recent claims of the single fastest CPU core in computing.
—PCMAG, 7 Nov. 2024
In majority Black wards in Milwaukee, turnout has been declining in recent elections, including a 58% turnout in 2016 and 51% in 2020, compared with nearly 79% in 2012.
—Steven Martinez, Journal Sentinel, 30 Oct. 2024
On a recent Monday, the lunchtime crowd in LOVE Park was all about, well, love.
—Phaedra Trethan, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
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Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 7 Nov. 2024
Interestingly enough, aside from the clear win in Photoshop, the rest of the M4 Pro's small victories were in single-core performance tests, which lines up with Apple's recent claims of the single fastest CPU core in computing.
—PCMAG, 7 Nov. 2024
In majority Black wards in Milwaukee, turnout has been declining in recent elections, including a 58% turnout in 2016 and 51% in 2020, compared with nearly 79% in 2012.
—Steven Martinez, Journal Sentinel, 30 Oct. 2024
On a recent Monday, the lunchtime crowd in LOVE Park was all about, well, love.
—Phaedra Trethan, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
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The video is the latest in a lengthy stream of controversies the probation department has faced in recent years.James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2023
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The shooting happened the day before the fifth anniversary of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting that killed 17 and is the latest in what has become a deadly new year in the U.S.Joey Cappelletti and Mike Householder, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Feb. 2023
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In October, Trump’s team asked the Federal Election Commission to investigate after a senior Labour figure posted a rallying cry for current and former staffers to travel to battleground states and campaign for Harris.Hannah Peart, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
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And the choices Michigan makes for the state Supreme Court will determine whether Democratic nominees will maintain their current 4-3 majority on that influential body.Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2024
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American innovation today, such as the Pentagon’s Replicator program to rapidly field new high-tech weapons, is equally impressive—and equally insufficient.Michael Green, Foreign Affairs, 19 Nov. 2024
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The triumphs and troubles of the new era all seem to stem from the fact that after years of clawing away at a new path, Shinoda feels like he’s found his counterpart again.Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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This contemporary dispossession of Indigenous people fits into the long and violent history in which legal and extralegal measures are taken by those in power to forcibly remove Indigenous inhabitants from their land.Ryleigh Nucilli, Outside Online, 14 Nov. 2024
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The tradition is centuries old and unique to the U.K., with some towns creating huge elaborate effigies of Guy Fawkes to be burned — sometimes instead building models of contemporary figures, including former prime ministers Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak.Patrick Smith, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
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The Lakers’ already depleted frontcourt took another hit with their latest injury.Khobi Price, Orange County Register, 13 Nov. 2024
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Adjustment Brushes One of Adobe's latest brushes is the Adjustment brush.PCMAG, PCMAG, 12 Nov. 2024
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The movie’s true set pieces are the professorial villain’s ostentatious monologues using fast food, musical plagiarism, and Monopoly as metaphors to point out how modern religions are just conspicuous iterations of what’s come before.Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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Second, the refusal to see how profoundly distasteful so much of modern liberalism has become to so much of America.Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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The gap in votes cast by the mayor’s critics and her supporters could be seen as a kind of backlash to progressive politics in one of California’s most diverse cities.Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 9 Nov. 2024
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At least this one tilts a bit more progressive: The Recording Academy’s yearslong project to expand and diversify its membership seems to be paying off, with a younger and especially more women-heavy slate this year (just don’t look at the rock categories).Justin Curto, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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