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Recent Examples of finsOur fish farm worked beautifully right up until the NewCoral molted, growing fins and fangs and one rocky fin, terrorizing the coastline and hunting the NewFish almost to NewExtinction.—Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025 The sharks are another story — their flesh is not well regarded and is often given away, while its fins are considered poor quality for the global shark fin trade.—
Melissa Cristina Márquez,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
Trump also took an average of 80 days to decide on requests from solidly Democratic states, more than twice as long as for solidly Republican ones.
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Jeremy Gorner,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Oct. 2026
Brands need to decide which trends resonate, which ones make sense to capitalize on and make a new product launch or an entire franchise and which to let go and pass over.
The Treasury Department moved last week to automatically enroll tens of millions of children and greenlight donations of individual stocks as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent touts the accounts ahead of midterms.
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Eleanor Mueller,
semafor.com,
7 Oct. 2026
Jaguar also asked for ratings from thousands of prospective buyers, and Glover said the car drew more ones and twos out of ten than the company usually sees, but also more nines and tens.
As the hundreds of thousands of people made their way down the narrow roads following the politician, a few rerouted into the industry event, still carrying big flags and with faces lit up with hope.
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Rafa Sales Ross,
Variety,
7 Oct. 2026
Like hundreds of others around the country, the school was closed.
Hundreds of billions of dollars have been poured into the buildout, and not just into AI labs and models, but data centers, semiconductor chips, and so on.
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Yerbol Orynbayev,
Fortune,
3 Oct. 2026
After initially struggling to build a market for the technology, the company continued developing HBM and eventually became the leading supplier of the memory chips used by NVIDIA (NVDA) in its AI accelerators.
During that time, the group raised thousands of dollars from the tobacco, gambling, and pharmaceutical industries, as detailed by a Washington Post report.
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Ramsey Touchberry,
The Washington Examiner,
9 Oct. 2026
Earlier reports indicated that Elon Musk's SpaceX is planning to raise 10 billion dollars through bank loans and 30 billion dollars via investment grade bonds to finance NVIDIA chip purchases.
LaPour was the preseason Big 12 Pitcher of the Year and got his season off to a strong start against Vanderbilt, giving up two runs off fives hits in five innings of work with five strikeouts.
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Lawrence Dow,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Feb. 2026