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Singer continued to advise prospective undergraduates on their college applications while serving his sentence in federal prison in Florida, and from a California halfway house after his release.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
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The most dramatic application of this asymmetric approach came in June, when a fleet of more than a hundred Ukrainian drones struck targets as far away as Siberia, destroying or damaging some twenty Russian warplanes.—
Dexter Filkins,
New Yorker,
14 July 2025
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Drawing inspiration from Woolf’s famous novel Mrs. Dalloway, Cunningham’s lustrous prose resembles Woolf’s in its bright, tumbling relation of consciousness.—
Mia Barzilay Freund,
Vogue,
7 July 2025
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With his body preserved, the narrator’s consciousness is set free.—
Book Marks
July 3,
Literary Hub,
3 July 2025
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Prioritizing Interoperability Within Your Organization When purchasing new software for your tech stack, interoperability is an important consideration.—
Cynthia Tee,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
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After careful consideration, the federal Court of International Trade, based in Manhattan, ruled on May 28 that Trump had exceeded his authority with the tariffs and ordered them lifted.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
11 July 2025
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What is indisputable, however, is that the event contributed to an awareness of global poverty and hunger, forcing world leaders to address the issues in a public way.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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His high tackle-success rate and ability to recover loose balls highlight both positional awareness and sharp instinctive timing.—
Conor O'Neill,
New York Times,
12 July 2025
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So much so that the very act of regulating my blood sugar goes well beyond a healthy preoccupation and turns into something uglier.—
Lizz Schumer,
People.com,
2 July 2025
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Nearly half of these offenders exhibited evidence of fixation – an intense or obsessive preoccupation with an individual, activity, or idea.—
Donald J. Mihalek,
ABC News,
16 June 2025
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Given my obsession with identity, Simon’s comments on access control caught my eye.—
David G.W. Birch,
Forbes.com,
6 July 2025
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What matters is whether genuine compatibility exists beneath the obsession.—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
5 July 2025
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Little by little, this fixation on wringing out every cent that exhibitors can from their screens has made going to the movies less special and less distinctive.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
2 July 2025
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The Trade Numbers Fundamentally, the fixation on the trade deficit is misplaced.—
Ivan Illan,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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“Raptness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/raptness. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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