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These things will make your video content more accessible for non-native speakers and users with hearing impairments.—
Karan Sharma,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2025 -
The increase in loss is attributed to impairment charges on intangible assets and changes in fair value of contingent consideration.—
Quartz Intelligence Newsroom,
Quartz,
24 Mar. 2025
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Both cuts will affect students with disabilities, experts say.—
Kayla Jimenez,
USA Today,
5 Apr. 2025
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Oz now directs an agency with a $1.4 trillion budget that administers Medicare for seniors, people with disabilities, and survivors, as well as Medicaid, which serves low-income Americans.—
Newsweek Staff,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Apr. 2025
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Despite efforts by the small Republican contingent in the state Legislature to cast light on these failings, the agency remained immune from true accountability until the pandemic-era disaster struck.—
Lanhee J. Chen,
Mercury News,
27 Mar. 2025
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But the fund’s failings struck at the heart of New York’s intentions, said Eric Olson, a corporate and finance lawyer at Cleary Gottlieb, a white-shoe firm helping some licensees to develop their businesses pro bono.—
Ashley Southall,
New York Times,
26 Feb. 2025
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However, economists say trade deficits aren’t a sign of national weakness.—
Time,
Time,
9 Apr. 2025
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The visualisations below make clear how Arsenal can attack Madrid’s areas of weakness.—
Thom Harris,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
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But to say that because some researchers find a detriment, even if many others, countless others, over the decades have found more benefits, then no one can have those benefits, is not upholding personal freedom.—
Megha Satyanarayana,
Scientific American,
4 Apr. 2025
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The show's multimedia elements are at times dizzying, occasionally to the show's detriment.—
Shania Russell,
EW.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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The fault lies less with the performers than the writing.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Apr. 2025
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These maps, based on research into earthquake sources such as faults and how seismic waves move through the earth’s crust, are used to determine the forces that structures in each community should be designed to resist.—
Jonathan P. Stewart,
The Conversation,
31 Mar. 2025
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“Defectiveness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/defectiveness. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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