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sweatshops

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plural of sweatshop

as in factories

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Only 1,221 entered over the same period, through subsidiaries, factories or representative offices, the fewest on record outside the Covid-19 pandemic.

— Anniek Bao,Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 5 Oct. 2026
Yet without fully mature local ecosystems, Southeast Asian factories source inputs from China to keep production running.

— Angelica Ang, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026

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Given today’s risks, frontier labs need to run like nuclear power plants or busy airports, with layers of redundancy and careful, time-consuming planning, so that the occasional and inevitable human error does not open a door to disaster.

— Terrence O'Brien, The Verge, 3 Oct. 2026
According to the Clean Label report, wet or air-dried products are preferable to dry food for lower lead exposure, while avoiding foods with plants in the top 10 ingredients may lower pesticide exposure.

— Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2026

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To help textile mills assess the impact of their headers, Fabscrap also developed a Smart Swatch Scorecard, which assigns header designs a grade, based on the number of components and the relative ease of disassembling them.

— Bella Webb, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2026
Instead of seeing these requirements as simple administrative tasks, leaders from both organizations encourage brands and mills to concentrate on basic data and on end-to-end transparency.

— Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2026

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But equally rewarding are works by artists who are still being discovered, who haven’t already secured their place in art history.

— Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 7 Oct. 2026
Acoustic wooden bafflers frame the space and help create a sense of intimacy, with grand works from local artists peppered about and instilling a tangible sense of place.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026

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