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cantles

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plural of cantle

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The star is 2,160,000 ppb of low-molecular-weight collagen—in other words, smaller collagen fragments that help draw moisture to skin for a plumper, firmer look.

— Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 7 Oct. 2026
This test, as well as others like it, can detect tiny fragments of free-floating DNA in the blood.

— H. Gilbert Welch, STAT, 6 Oct. 2026

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Mastercard’s Agent Pay for Machines is designed for continuous machine-to-machine transactions, including microtransactions worth fractions of a cent.

— Shlomit Wagman, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026
The brightly colored insects, native to Australia, are small — just fractions of an inch long — with colors that pop under a microscope.

— Brad Balukjian, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2026

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In contrast, when a previously obscure writer, Mia Ballard, was accused of using AI in her horror novel Shy Girl, her publisher launched an investigation, canceled the book, and left her reputation in shreds.

— Will Oremus, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2026
To prevent the shreds from clumping, anti-caking agents like cellulose (a plant fiber made from wood pulp) and potato starch are often added, which can steal moisture from the cheese, affecting its texture.

— Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 21 Aug. 2026

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Riley was a direct inspiration on the record, and while the Bay Area composer did work with drones, his influence is more poignant here, in the way Schwendener breaks the melody down into pieces and moves them around.

— Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 4 Oct. 2026
Your car could become a grid asset Electric vehicles are one of the most obvious pieces of this puzzle because their batteries can store substantial amounts of electricity while the vehicles are parked for much of the day.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2026

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Blanding hops in and out of the truck, grabbing buckets of food scraps from porches and restaurants, piling those scraps into bins in the truck bed and driving them to a composting site.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026
But his script, co-written with regular collaborator Jack Coulter, is less impressive, welding together story scraps from other, better films to rather turbid, uninvolving effect.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 3 Oct. 2026

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With both Better Homes & Gardens and Woman & Home publishing explainers, the term is primed to migrate into big-box home sections, subscription boxes and gift guides over the next holiday cycle.

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Oct. 2026
The team broke down Mario’s possible path through a level into individual sections, each corresponding to a calculation instruction of the counting machine.

— Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 6 Oct. 2026

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And look at the Johnson-less segments, like the overlong Weekend Update (more on that later) — or especially the stale-as-hell midterm ads political cold open, another excuse to run through all the usual impressions.

— Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2026
At the same time, nonalcoholic beer has been one of the few hot segments of the global beer industry.

— Erik Kirschbaum, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026

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