to decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities
you can take the white side this time, since I got to be white for our last chess game
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Pittsburgh Penguins player Andrei Kuzmenko returned to the team on Friday after taking some time in the wake of his father's tragic death in a bear attack last month in Siberia.—
Matt Reigle Outkick,
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Deadline,
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Eric Sondheimer,
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3 Oct. 2026 Every Washington Nationals player filtered into the news conference room at Nationals Park on Friday afternoon, taking their seats among Cade Cavalli’s family, team ownership and staff members.—
Danielle Allentuck,
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26 Sep. 2026 Martha and her mother Maria Alberto Gonzalez and his wife, Catalina Gonzalez, remember taking two buses and a train from their home on the North Side to get to the restaurant in the late 1960s.—
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Chicago Tribune,
26 Sep. 2026 After three consecutive years of Spanish films taking the Golden Shell, this year marks a slightly disappointing turnout for the home team.—
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Variety,
26 Sep. 2026 Szabo started taking pictures for the school yearbook and carrying a camera around the school with him all the time.—
Margaret Talbot,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2026
With that, Dorinda gathers everyone (except for Chanel Ayan, who is too beautiful for the cold) out into the freezing night for the fireworks that end this celebration.
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Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
5 Oct. 2026
Indeed, this celestial crustacean has no star brighter than 4th magnitude and its only claims to fame are its membership in the zodiac and beautiful M44.
He was put into a 20-foot-by-20-foot holding cell with at least 25 other men.
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Stephanie Nolasco,
FOXNews.com,
2 Oct. 2026
That machine set a global benchmark in January 2025 by holding plasma heated to 100 million degrees Celsius (180 million degrees Fahrenheit) for 1,066 seconds.
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Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Oct. 2026
People don't want to go around changing their Clocks anymore and, besides, far and away, most people like having an hour of extra sunlight in the evening, rather than in the morning.
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Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
3 Oct. 2026
The Liberty had a rough regular season in the WNBA, falling to eighth place despite having several women’s basketball headliners on the roster.
Kimmel asked, getting the scoop for the general public, whose curiosity about the wedding still lingers.
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Ashley Iasimone,
Billboard,
3 Oct. 2026
Of course, amid the rise of streaming movies in the home coming out of the pandemic, followed by the 2023 Los Angeles writers and actors strikes, getting film lovers back into the Cranford Theater remained a challenge.
The Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners will be tasked with selecting the department’s new leader.
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Nathan Pilling,
Kansas City Star,
2 Oct. 2026
The Justice Department joined the UCLA medical school suit in January and issued a finding in May accusing the school of intentionally considering race in selecting students.
Moulds is responsible for buying health care for the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the second-largest health care purchaser, behind only the federal government.
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Bob Herman,
STAT,
5 Oct. 2026
On Monday, Goldman Sachs released its first guide to buying and collecting luxury jewelry and watches.
By contrast, a patient with dangerously low sodium levels requiring an ICU stay, frequent lab checks, and carefully titrated IV fluids undoubtedly does use more resources.
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Leah Pierson,
STAT,
6 Oct. 2026
Building conventional simulations for robot testing can be time-consuming and costly, Taiuti said, requiring developers to create three-dimensional objects and configure scenes.
McGarrell loves to see her son have an accepting, accommodating place.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
28 Sep. 2026
The successor stadium is significantly larger—by over a half-a-million square feet—than what existed before while accommodating only 35,000 fans, a 26% reduction from the old stadium and, by far, the smallest capacity in the Big Ten.
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