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This cocktail tackles skin-barrier damage and its resulting tired-looking skin and helps maximize moisture retention, starting with the moisture from the mask itself.—
Annie Blackman,
Allure,
10 Apr. 2025 -
Instead of maximizing patient volume, Vetique prioritizes extended appointment times and a calming environment with luxury touches like sparkling epoxy floors, examination tables with faux fur coverings and exam rooms named after the founders' pets.—
Alain Sherter,
CBS News,
9 Apr. 2025
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Tesla has increased North American sourcing for parts of many models over the last two years, which would decrease tariff exposure for the E41, two people aware of the matter said.—
Abhirup Roy,
USA Today,
20 Apr. 2025
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Those unused hours can, however, be converted to service credit to increase their government pensions.—
Melody Gutierrez,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Apr. 2025
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Soucy respected Miller for trying to pump up his team.—
Peter Baugh,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
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Gamestop Gamestop has their Switch 2 landing page up as well, if you're still invested in the meme stock and want to pump up the valuation a bit.—
K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
3 Apr. 2025
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But, cleaning it regularly and keeping the space well-ventilated greatly helps prevent the build up of mold.—
Ashlyn Needham,
Southern Living,
19 Apr. 2025
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Much anticipation had built up ahead of Trump’s release of the John F. Kennedy files, but observers hoping for a smoking gun were let down last month as the documents contained some new details but no key information that changed the public’s understanding of what happened.—
Jared Gans,
The Hill,
18 Apr. 2025
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The most successful implementations use technology to augment human capabilities, providing tools that help people work more efficiently rather than avoiding challenges altogether.—
AJ Bubb,
Forbes.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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Brynjolfsson, in his Daedalus article, suggested changing the tax system to give businesses more incentive to invest in technology that augments labor rather than replaces it.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
14 Apr. 2025
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The improved coding and long-context capabilities could accelerate software development cycles, enabling developers to tackle more complex problems, analyze legacy code more effectively, or generate code documentation and tests more efficiently.—
Janakiram MSV,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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The blaze accelerated quickly because of the Molotov cocktails, Enterline said.—
Christopher Cann,
USA Today,
14 Apr. 2025
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However, because of the way the sport has blown up, most cruises these days offer pickleball, including Norwegian’s newest ships, which have an indoor, caged-in set-up for the sport.—
Walter Villa,
Miami Herald,
21 Apr. 2025
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It’s been there for me since the beginning, before the café scene really blew up in Phuket Town.—
Jenn Rice,
Forbes.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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This time, astronomers have used new processing techniques to draw out additional details in celebration of the telescope's upcoming 35th anniversary.—
Robert Z. Pearlman,
Space.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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These systems use a lot of water, which is lost to the atmosphere when heat is drawn out of the building.—
Erik Kobayashi-Solomon,
Forbes.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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“Bump (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bump%20%28up%29. Accessed 26 Apr. 2025.
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