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Recent Examples of finsOur fish farm worked beautifully right up until the NewCoral molted, growing fins and fangs and one rocky fin, terrorizing the coastline and hunting the NewFish almost to NewExtinction.—Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025 The sharks are another story — their flesh is not well regarded and is often given away, while its fins are considered poor quality for the global shark fin trade.—
Melissa Cristina Márquez,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
The increase also reflects a few additional states that expanded their early voting opportunities and ones that made more of their data available since the last midterms.
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Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
23 Oct. 2026
Beginning January 2027, Ford Foundation staff will shift to three temporary units to maintain its existing grants while simultaneously transitioning new ones.
In the Bucha district, one woman was killed and 21 people were wounded, eight of them children, while hundreds of buildings were damaged, according to police.
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Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
21 Oct. 2026
Their contracts can run hundreds of pages, making harmful terms easy to bury.
In 2025 the hyperscalers alone poured more than $300 billion into data centers, chips, and grid capacity, and that spend is doing real work in the top-line growth figures.
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Stephen Messer,
Fortune,
23 Oct. 2026
The project will focus on advanced packaging techniques that bundle multiple chips into compact units.
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Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Oct. 2026
LaPour was the preseason Big 12 Pitcher of the Year and got his season off to a strong start against Vanderbilt, giving up two runs off fives hits in five innings of work with five strikeouts.
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Lawrence Dow,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Feb. 2026