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Pumpkins have come a long way since then, as Indigenous American communities carefully adapted the wild pumpkin into successively bigger and better-tasting varieties.

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The head-to-head elimination matches have competitors shooting three arrows in each of five “ends,” with the bull’s-eye equaling 10 points, the outer rings successively less.

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A team at the University of California San Diego exposed batches of spores from a strain of Bacillus subtilis bacterium to rounds of successively higher temperatures.

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Instead of being strategically managed to address the realities of the future, WSU has successively cut budgets across the board:

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After a series of apologies that became successively more contrite, Al-Alim staked out a somewhat different position at a campaign forum last week, asserting, “I’m not ashamed of anything.”

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