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North Carolina and Georgia are key swing states, which has heightened the political stakes for the recovery effort and the jockeying around it.
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Zac Anderson, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2024
Old conventions governing escalation have been cast aside; new actors have emerged, and all are jockeying for dominance.
—Mona Yacoubian, Foreign Affairs, 3 Oct. 2024
Lebanon is a fractured society, with different religious and secular groups jockeying for power, and Hezbollah is hated by those who oppose its worldview, with little room for a middle ground.
—Nicole Narea, Vox, 18 Sep. 2024
Photographers for national news outlets jockeyed for space with the film crew for the best shots.
—Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 21 Sep. 2024
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Zac Anderson, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2024
Old conventions governing escalation have been cast aside; new actors have emerged, and all are jockeying for dominance.
—Mona Yacoubian, Foreign Affairs, 3 Oct. 2024
Lebanon is a fractured society, with different religious and secular groups jockeying for power, and Hezbollah is hated by those who oppose its worldview, with little room for a middle ground.
—Nicole Narea, Vox, 18 Sep. 2024
Photographers for national news outlets jockeyed for space with the film crew for the best shots.
—Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 21 Sep. 2024
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Such sales have been on the decline since 2021, no doubt due to the rapid rise in interest rates engineered by the Fed.Robert Barone, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
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Apple has gone to great lengths to engineer a secure and private AI cloud platform, and this week’s release includes extensive detailed technical documentation of its security features as well as a research environment that is already available in the macOS Sequoia 15.1 beta release.Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 25 Oct. 2024
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The organization is also fielding many inquiries from returning parties, suggesting a high level of user satisfaction.Jamie Lang, Variety, 4 Nov. 2024
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The Times reported that Trump fielded a last-ditch appeal to fellow blue state Republican Chris Christie, the then governor of New Jersey, whose social views aligned more closely with his own than Pence's.David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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Lord played basketball at Combs High School in San Tan Valley.Robert Anglen, The Arizona Republic, 30 Oct. 2024
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Music composed at Auschwitz to be played for first time after being restored This research included analysis by paper conservators who found that the paper and ink match those that Chopin normally used.Jack Guy, CNN, 29 Oct. 2024
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Opium is revered by Carti truthers who treat his 2020 album Whole Lotta Red as the Bible, and denigrated by non-believers as a bunch of edgelords who come off as wannabe Satan-worshipers.Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 4 Nov. 2024
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Many political organizing campaigns, whether party based or nonpartisan, have targeted Latinos as a whole, with messaging that has treated Latinos as a monolith.Aisha Wallace-Palomares, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Jockey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jockey. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
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