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Dabrowski said the Chicago Teachers Union pressures the Illinois General Assembly to keep failing schools open.—
Center Square, The Washington Examiner, 11 Jan. 2026
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The 6-3 lefthanded guard consistently pressures the defense by attacking the rim, shooting the three with deep range, and making high-level reads offensively.—
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WhatsApp already forces its users to upgrade their app every three months.—
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That depth matters in a season bisected by the FIFA World Cup, which runs June 11-July 19 and forces MLS into a seven-week hiatus.—
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One of the most powerful yet underappreciated forces in these dynamics is social identity, the psychological force that compels people to sort themselves into groups and take those group boundaries seriously.—
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One scene involves Varang poisoning Quaritch with a mysterious hallucinatory drug that compels him to tell the truth about his motivations.—
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That’s not the case, though, with preferred shares—and Strategy has issued plenty of these as well, which obliges it to pay regular dividends to shareholders.—
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Passion sparks when the algorithm obliges erotic fantasy on demand.—
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Modern economies run on energy, yet the United States increasingly constrains supply through permitting delays.—
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The limitation won’t be the technology itself, but the lack of public trust, which ultimately constrains the industry’s potential to improve financial health and inclusion.—
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Lo then bludgeons Richard in the head with a metal pipe and kills him.—
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However, the rotation of this filament clearly dominates how the galaxies within it spin, perhaps by funneling hydrogen gas along the dark-matter filament and onto the galaxies in a way that coerces their spin while providing further fuel for star formation.—
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Haunted by the suspicious death of his ailing mother, Ali, a university professor, coerces his enigmatic gardener to execute a cold-blooded act of vengeance.—
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Ibrahim comes and sits next to me and harasses me.—
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Man harasses people with knife in Eastie Deigo Bautista-Perez, 36, of East Boston, is under arrest and facing charges of assault with a dangerous weapon and two counts of disorderly conduct after some alleged threatening behavior.—
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“Pushes around.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pushes%20around. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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