Making his early exit as the second player murdered even more painful was the fact that Rob had correctly sniffed out that a murder in plain sight was happening.
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Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 Jan. 2026
This is a team that would’ve never sniffed a title chance until the 12-team format arrived.
Having whimpered out of World Cup contention, a maiden goal against the two-time world champions may be sufficient consolation for an Azerbaijan side low on morale.
With the Grateful Dead, Bob Weir helped the world appreciate rock & roll in a new way, writing songs that breathed new life onstage as the group jammed.
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Kory Grow,
Rolling Stone,
10 Jan. 2026
Reassuring results from Micron breathed life back into the AI-infrastructure theme while a cool CPI reading allowed investors concerned about a hawkish Fed to exhale, allowing for a relief bounce in the indexes that for now looks welcome but inconclusive.
The kids were up at daybreak, congregating beneath the parachute, having already swung on the rope swing, picked on one another, cried a little, and gotten into a cooler of sodas.
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Paige Williams,
New Yorker,
12 Jan. 2026
Jane and Darlene have both cried on the runway recently.
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