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“Keeping busy,” the singer said — blond hair still spiky, upper lip temporarily unsnarled — at his home in the Hollywood Hills during a break from all the action.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2026
During that tournament he made a break of 153, the highest ever recorded in professional snooker.
From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026
The car-sized rover carried two tubes of a chemical called TMAH, which can break apart organic matter to see what it is made out of.
From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026
But I’m going to break some very heavy news: It is not getting “better.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
Words come at me all at once from every direction, crash into each other, break apart, and fall away.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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