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And it seems important to have one judge say this about an out-of-control colleague who’s seizing cases from a thousand miles away.

From Slate • May 18, 2026

In a best-case scenario, we should see a couple of hundred thousand additional barrels of oil coming out of Venezuela in the near term.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

Katchinoff said the larger Hampton Roads system should remove several thousand tons of CO2 a year—a fraction of the pollution from the facility’s waste tanks.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

Scientists believe the Solar System entered the Local Interstellar Cloud several tens of thousands of years ago and is expected to exit it again within the next few thousand years.

From Science Daily • May 14, 2026

So I looked straight at Mama and Daddy, pushed back my chair, and put a thousand miles between us.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan