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In July, after rampant flooding claimed more than 130 lives in the Texas Hill Country, false rumors started to spread on social media that Coogan and Hays’s friend Augustus Doricko had contributed to the bad weather with his cloud-seeding company Rainmaker.—
Julia Black, Vanity Fair, 8 Jan. 2026
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Playoff seeding matters, especially to this Denver team.—
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For best results, choose a rich potting mix and amend garden soil with compost before planting.—
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When planting pea seeds, proper soil preparation is essential.—
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Porter, coming off one of his toughest shooting nights as a Net, briefly gave Brooklyn a spark by drilling his first 3-point attempt to put the Nets ahead 10–9.—
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Eugenio said some of her clients have had success conversing and drilling with artificial intelligence chatbots in voice mode.—
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Hu Nguyen though believes the city also needs to invest in infrastructures such as putting in more speed bumps and other traffic calming devices such as speed tables.—
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Meanwhile, a broken leg in a cast prevented him from putting in the necessary training.—
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There has been some recent success transplanting pig kidneys and hearts into people, but this is believed to be the first attempt to transplant a pig lung into a human.—
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The mayor called on ICE agents to leave the city, asserting that federal immigration authorities were ripping families apart and sowing chaos on Minneapolis streets.—
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Trump had been sowing doubts about the integrity of the election since before the voting even started.—
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“Potting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/potting. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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