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He liked to play loudly, for many hours at a time, improvising ceaseless and whipsawing sagas of frenetic melodies and emphatic blaring and screeching—it was a whole lot of sound.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
He said recent "upsetting, quite untrue, quite damaging" online posts had "hurt the whole of the school community" but he believed social media also had "many advantages" for young people.
From BBC • May 25, 2026
"While whole genome duplication occurs through multiple cellular processes, it has been unclear whether differences in the route affect the characteristics of the resulting cells," says Associate Professor Ryota Uehara, corresponding author of the study.
From Science Daily • May 25, 2026
Scattered over the top of bread pudding before baking, it creates these bronzed little crackly edges that make the whole thing feel finished.
From Salon • May 25, 2026
But since I was not pretty, and far too bashful to express my feelings, a whole generation of boys was growing up unaware of the girl in seat 32.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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Geometry - Introductory
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Geometry (Base List)
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