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The touching moments of aspirational maturity are set against bouts of jealousy, public embarrassment and other adolescent growing pains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
A SpaceX rocket's upper stage is set to unintentionally crash into the Moon on Wednesday, a collision that poses no danger to Earth but will leave behind a lunar crater.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
“I never set out to make electronic music, but it’s what called to me,” Cuello said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
An independent review will now be set up into the governance of GBS.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
I set down a kick drum and step onto the wide, flat wooden stage that is about the height of a crate.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Faraji, its director, told me that besides the program’s bicycle brigade and backyard fish program, which help keep mosquito populations down, his team also sets hundreds of mosquito traps across the city.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
Staffers are teaching lessons during rest hours or choice time and parents are getting requests to mail mahjong sets or bring them on visiting day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
After the sun sets on Ariana Grande’s Eternal Sunshine tour, the pop diva plans to to take a step back from the public eye, her representative announced.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
Its high-performance computing systems allowed several sets of satellite images to be processed at the same time.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
She presses some buttons and then sets it back down.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
He added there were reports of "pockets of deliberate fire setting" which put the crews "under really critical conditions and stretches the service".
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
I could easily hail “Howl’s Moving Castle” as a tribute to maturity, especially when placed against other Miyazaki stories starring young heroines setting out on adventures.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
The demographic also helps capture the drivers most likely to get into crashes: young male drivers, since insurers in California are prohibited from considering sex and age in setting rates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
That latter point may even be true, but officials have traded one panic for another by setting in motion exchange-market wobbles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
On our walk to Birdie’s, the sun is setting.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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