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Dirt is everywhere, caking people’s Vans sneakers, and the day is a dull grey as clouds above threaten rain.—
Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 30 Dec. 2025
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The strikes have left tens of thousands of people across the country without power or heating amid freezing winter temperatures.—
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Typically, temperatures should be just above freezing for the beginning of January.—
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Propose a clear boundary with a sibling (or close friend) to stop resentment from hardening.—
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Those upgrades involve hardening vulnerable infrastructure, improving outage detection and restoration, and preparing the grid for increasingly extreme weather.—
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Look for signs like the cat stopping purring, stiffening, thrashing their tail, or hissing.—
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Afterwards, a squaring solution—a powdery mixture of water and a gel-like batter used in the decorative cake business—is applied to the inside of the hat’s crown to act as a stiffening agent.—
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Starches swell with heat and water, gelatinizing to give dough its airy lift.—
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Bolstering that pair — or, even better, the second pair, and bumping down rookie Axel Sandin-Pellikka to the third — would go a long way toward solidifying the blue line.—
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Wunder Train High-Rise Tight Taylor Swift was seen leaving the studio in these exact leggings last year, solidifying them as the ultimate pants for getting things done.—
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The basketball gods have handed us an opportunity — a chance to stir up a rivalry that has been sitting cold and coagulating on the back burner for far too long.—
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“Callusing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/callusing. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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