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The legal battle will have sweeping implications for the government’s environmental permitting process, influencing major construction projects across the country, including those aimed at building infrastructure to meet the ongoing surge in electricity demand.—
Mary Steurer,
ProPublica,
24 Jan. 2025 -
However, if there's a surge of bookings from the teams' home cities once the lineup is finalized, that could change.—
Zach Wichter,
USA TODAY,
24 Jan. 2025
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While April and August saw more returns than departures, the overall trend remains a net outflow.—
Katya Soldak,
Forbes,
17 Jan. 2025
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The worst day of outflows to date was Jan. 8, when bitcoin ETFs recorded $583 million of outflows.—
Tanaya Macheel,
CNBC,
15 Jan. 2025
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Showers could linger into Tuesday, spawning flood watches in areas where the Palisades, Franklin, Eaton, Bridge, and Hughes wildfires burned.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA TODAY,
27 Jan. 2025
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Ahead of the storm, the National Weather Service issued flood watches for the Palisades, Eaton, Hughes, Franklin and Bridge fire burn scars.—
Noah Haggerty,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Jan. 2025
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They are taken aback by the outpouring of support from the online community and learn about the impact Steen had on so many.—
Jenelle Riley,
Variety,
16 Jan. 2025
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Administrative Director Jason Camp says the support for first responders was driven by an outpouring in the community.—
Ali Martin,
The Christian Science Monitor,
13 Jan. 2025
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An east wind will maintain a higher risk of rip currents along the coast, but overall, the holiday period will not see a washout.—
Hannah Parry,
Newsweek,
23 Dec. 2024
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On six of those instances, the games were postponed on back-to-back days, including a stretch of three consecutive days of washouts.—
Chris Kirschner,
The Athletic,
22 Nov. 2024
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During winter months, manatees gather in warm-water areas such as natural springs and power plant discharge zones.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
24 Jan. 2025
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Much of the relief was provided through Borrower Defense to Repayment, a controversial program that allows borrowers to request a discharge if their school misled or defrauded them.—
Adam S. Minsky,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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The key is to treat slides as a supporting act, not the main event.—
Martin Gutmann,
Forbes,
24 Jan. 2025
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This slide in stock price caused chipmaker Nvidia to overtake Apple as the most valuable company in the world on Tuesday.—
Rocio Fabbro,
Quartz,
23 Jan. 2025
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Most new titles from book publishers float into bookstores like flood tides in winter, summer and fall.—
Scott Burns,
Dallas News,
20 July 2023
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These enclaves, once the backbone of Ukraine’s agricultural eastern steppe, were reduced to ruin as the war passed over them like a flood tide.—
Natalia Yermak Mauricio Lima,
New York Times,
14 July 2023
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“Engulfment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/engulfment. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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