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Both our regional electric grid manager and federal agencies have issued dire warnings of a near-term electricity reliability cliff as Maryland is closing baseload power plants prematurely with no reliable replacements in sight.—
David T. Stevenson,
Baltimore Sun,
22 Jan. 2025 -
Short has major-league experience around the infield and profiles as a replacement for Grae Kessinger, whom Houston traded to the Arizona Diamondbacks in January.—
Chandler Rome,
The Athletic,
22 Jan. 2025
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To make this discovery now, as the community faced new displacement, felt profound.—
Colleen Shalby,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Jan. 2025
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Rebecca Hefner, director of the city’s Housing and Neighborhood Services, said former Lamplighter tenants can reach out to the caseworker assigned to them when the city’s mass displacement effort began in December.—
Jeff A. Chamer,
Charlotte Observer,
17 Jan. 2025
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To detect for authenticity, a test strip is placed into a DNA sample solution and examines for the presence of a gene specific to Atlantic white shrimp, which are particularly prone to substitution.—
Christopher Cann,
USA TODAY,
28 Jan. 2025
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The Russian government promotes import substitution in a variety of ways, including by subsidizing innovation centers that focus on developing replacements for critical technologies and components.—
Fred Weir,
The Christian Science Monitor,
28 Jan. 2025
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But the researchers found that under the right conditions, the gravitational waves triggered by the quantum foam can sometimes generate exactly the right kind of deformations in space.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
19 Jan. 2025
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Rheology is a branch of physics that deals with the deformation and fluidity of matter.—
Leath Tonino,
Outside Online,
13 Jan. 2025
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Teaching how and why the Holocaust happened can make the Holocaust relevant and provoke critical thinking, something sorely needed in a world awash in online denial, distortion, and antisemitism.—
Greg Schneider and Ambassador Stuart E. Eizenstat,
Newsweek,
27 Jan. 2025
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Those estimates may also be valuable in multi-party trade negotiations focused on Chinese distortions, which pose particularly serious challenges for U.S. trade and the world economy.—
Alden Abbott,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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Prophecy is about just how dangerous women in STEM — that is, sorcery, transmutation, eugenics, and mothering — can be.—
Alex Abad-Santos,
Vox,
18 Nov. 2024
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In any case, whether by accident or by design, the transmutation of a vulgar old Jewface number into a civic hymn is hard to resist as metaphor—an emblem of minstrelsy’s fugitive movement through American life.—
Jody Rosen,
The New Yorker,
7 Oct. 2023
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The dissolution and subsequent reformation of safety teams at OpenAI demonstrates the ongoing debate about how best to approach AI safety governance.—
Sol Rashidi,
Forbes,
24 Dec. 2024
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Whether that’s the debut of Jacob Fatu, the recent reformation of the OG Bloodline or Punk making a deal with Paul Heyman to help the babyface Bloodline at Survivor Series, the twists just keep on coming.—
Blake Oestriecher,
Forbes,
30 Nov. 2024
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An internal email obtained by Spotlight on Maryland revealed one school system official responded to concerns from board member Terri Kocher with claims that a revision to the Patriot Program was necessary to boost equity and address concerns from the local teacher union.—
Patrick Hauf,
Baltimore Sun,
28 Jan. 2025
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Mayor Bill Wells was the only member to object to any revisions.—
Gary Warth,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Jan. 2025
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“Supplantation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supplantation. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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