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The 43-year-old former football player has been a longtime, outspoken proponent of LGBTQ rights.—
David K. Li,
NBC News,
20 Feb. 2025 -
Indirect-cost rates are controversial: The proportion of NIH funding that has gone to them has grown over time, and proponents of trimming overhead argue that doing so would make research more efficient.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
19 Feb. 2025
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Constructed above the tomb of Saint Peter, who was one of the twelve apostles, the altar is considered one of the holiest sites in Christianity.—
Francesca Aton,
ARTnews.com,
10 Feb. 2025
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The monastery was founded here in 874, at the site of one of the country’s first Christian churches, built in 305, following a dream a hermit-monk who’d lived for ten years on the island had about the 12 apostles.—
Shoshi Parks,
Smithsonian Magazine,
31 Jan. 2025
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Matar was arrested the same day and was ultimately charged with the stabbing of Rushdie and Henry Reese, a 75-year-old entrepreneur and advocate for international writers who was on the stage alongside the author.—
Jonathan Limehouse,
USA TODAY,
22 Feb. 2025
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Homeless advocates are expecting a future sweep near Colfax Street and Arden Way in the coming days.—
Mathew Miranda,
Sacramento Bee,
21 Feb. 2025
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My team and the promoters are already working on a new date to communicate to you.—
Tracy Wright,
Fox News,
16 Feb. 2025
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The singer noted the show will be postponed to a later date and said her team is working with the concert promoter on rescheduling.—
Edward Segarra,
USA TODAY,
16 Feb. 2025
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Alex Walsh was a champion in the 200 IM, 400 IM, 200 breast, 200 free relay, 400 medley relay and 400 free relay.—
Casey Murphy,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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Seattle's sports scene offers a professional football team, an NHL franchise, a major league baseball team (which ended its 21-year playoff drought recently), and the four-time WNBA champions, the Seattle Storm.—
Melissa Santos,
Axios,
28 Feb. 2025
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Progressive reformers viewed this as a modern evil just like unsafe working conditions and the excessive power of trusts.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
28 Jan. 2025
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Worse still for reformers, Garfield's vice president, Chester Alan Arthur, suddenly elevated to the top job, had climbed the ranks of dirty machine politics, enjoying the fruits of the spoils system along the way.—
Mo Rocca,
CBS News,
26 Jan. 2025
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But business allies and supporters of tech companies criticized the announcement.—
Nathaniel Meyersohn,
CNN,
20 Feb. 2025
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The arrest was triggered by tips to Austrian intelligence that a supporter of IS had posted stories and videos with Islamic extremist content on several TikTok profiles.—
Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports,
arkansasonline.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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Brutalism is once again the matter of mainstream discourse with the release of The Brutalist, a three-and-a-half-hour film about an exponent of the style named Lászlo Tóth.—
Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
14 Jan. 2025
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An exponent of decadent literature, D’Annunzio, too, raised an army, in 1919, and even tried to establish an independent state in a part of what is now Croatia.—
Ian Buruma,
The New Yorker,
6 Jan. 2025
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“Reformist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reformist. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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