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At 40, he says in the special that people in his age bracket have become the “Sandwich Generation.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
Preventative health has had a major boom over the past few years, and it’s become a primary focus for plenty of tech executives who move into the health and wellness space.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026
"No American should become a victim of a crime in their own community," said Hamadeh, who is running for a second term in office.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Palantir’s operational layer will become “increasingly important,” she said, as AI applications move to becoming agentic systems that can work autonomously across several tasks.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
The more disfigured you become, the more people look at you, step aside, and whisper to each other.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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When visceral fat becomes excessive, it can release inflammatory substances into the bloodstream that affect metabolism throughout the body.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
The need to broadcast the comedian’s material becomes larger than what the artist alone can deliver.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
Denmark sorts its garbage into 10 official categories, so that throwing something away becomes a small bureaucratic exam.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
That is the level of dedication to this project, which becomes obvious once the ensemble activates their full powers.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
“The greatest basketball players in the world are great because they practice shooting and dribbling so much it becomes as natural as breathing,” she once told Sydney.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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The show also became a platform for young, male talent that came to be known as the “manosphere.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
“Somewhere in that time, I became an artist,” Kearns told The Times in 1994.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
But as rock grew and changed as a genre, it became “torturing” to Cohn’s ears, with bands competing in terms of their comparative loudness and audacity.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026
Watching BBC undercover footage of Bechi smiling and greeting supporters at an event in March, when he should still have been in prison, Ira became tearful.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
At one point it became so bad that the team stopped and looked back at me in surprise.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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AI agents are becoming more proactive in encouraging user engagement.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
MPS has turned things around, becoming Italy's third-largest bank last year after the acquisition of Mediobanca.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Bagayoko, 53, has repeatedly stepped into the front lines of the student protests that have swept French schools this month, becoming a hero of the movement and a lightning rod for its critics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
They investigated causes of death, overall mortality rates and whether becoming a father appeared to influence a man's risk of dying.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
“I never said I hate you. You’re the one who hates me. You’re mad I’m becoming friends with JP.”
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
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