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His commitment to America's European allies is shaky at best, and nobody in their right minds still believes that Trump would endanger New York or Washington to attack—let alone to nuke—Moscow or Saint Petersburg in defense of Warsaw or Paris.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
27 Feb. 2025 -
Several momentum stocks that are part of the artificial intelligence trade have been shaky since the emergence of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek in late January.—
Fred Imbert,
CNBC,
25 Feb. 2025
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Around 700 million years ago, Earth was a frozen, white sphere, its rocky surface buried kilometers under ice.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
28 Feb. 2025
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Asteroids, also known as minor planets, are rocky, airless objects that originated from the early formation of our solar system approximately 4.6 billion years ago.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Feb. 2025
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Darkly tipsy aromas that include rum, fruit cake, maraschino cherries, slight petrol and carrot cake.—
Tom Mullen,
Forbes,
2 Mar. 2025
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An arrangement by Thomas Adès of Conlon Nancarrow’s Study No. 6, one of his ingenious player-piano exercises, somehow transformed complex rhythmic layerings into a blithe, tipsy rumba.—
Zachary Woolfe,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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Between the lines: Mayors have long used bond issues for city maintenance, but part of the fight here — and this gets a little wonky — is about the type of bond and how it's repaid.—
Monica Eng,
Axios,
26 Feb. 2025
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Unlike Gundam, which has many games (most of which can be rather underwhelming), Cowboy Bebop has only two to date: a weird shmup on the PSone and a functionally wonky action game on the PlayStation 2.—
Ollie Barder,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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Skiers and riders can make their way to the tippy top of the mountain on the higher bowls for a little fun on peaks 6, 7, and 8, but be warned.—
Stacey Leasca,
Travel + Leisure,
17 Feb. 2025
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But after that, sure enough, fun highlights, including the tippy top of the loop and superfast glimpse of Universal CityWalk, the busting through the New York facade, surfing above the queue and doubling back dramatically to the loading station.—
Dewayne Bevil,
Orlando Sentinel,
8 Jan. 2025
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“Wavery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wavery. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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