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Paulo Fonseca was sacked in December, while the end of the season saw the club decide to end Sergio Conceicao’s tenure after an eighth-place finish.—
Adam Digby,
Forbes.com,
4 June 2025 -
Former Porto head coach Conceicao was sacked after just five months in charge on Thursday following a disappointing eighth place finish in Serie A that saw the club miss out on European qualification for 2025-26.—
James Horncastle,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
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The Trump administration is laudably committed to rooting out waste across the federal government and axing large and ineffective programs.—
Ross Marchand,
Boston Herald,
30 May 2025
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Ford recently axed its next-generation electrical architecture due to ballooning costs around the technology.—
Nora Eckert,
USA Today,
29 May 2025
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To remove that barrier, managers can ensure their team receives basic AI literacy and capability training.—
Heide Abelli,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission sent a licensed trapper to remove the injured alligator, officials said.—
Mark Price,
Miami Herald,
2 June 2025
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Mutombo, a four-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year and Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer was the NBA’s first global ambassador after retiring in 2009.—
Sindiswa Mabunda,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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Trusty, Lady and the Tramp (1955) Lady's neighbor Trusty is a bloodhound who once helped track down criminals, but now he's retired and, tragically, appears to have lost his sense of smell.—
EW Staff,
EW.com,
27 May 2025
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Who’s That Girl by Mhairi McFarlane When Edie finds herself in the middle of a scandal that ostracizes her from her friends and colleagues, help comes from an unlikely source.—
Laura Wood,
People.com,
4 June 2025
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At the time, some Jewish students and faculty complained about being harassed during the demonstrations or ostracized because of their faith or their support of Israel.—
Jake Offenhartz,
Los Angeles Times,
23 May 2025
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Walmart is also terminating some of its employees in Florida and Texas, Bloomberg reported, after a Supreme Court ruling allowed the Trump administration to end temporary protections for certain migrant groups.—
Alia Shoaib,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 June 2025
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Last year, officials agreed to terminate an agreement with the Sweetwater Union School District that had given the public access to Mar Vista’s swimming pool.—
Tammy Murga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 June 2025
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No major leaguer had thrown fewer in a nine-inning complete game since Kyle Hendricks required 81 to shut out the St. Louis Cardinals on May 3, 2019.—
Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
31 May 2025
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Aledo shuts out McKinney North, takes game one In its first state semifinal appearance since 2015, Aledo baseball started strong and never looked back.—
Charles Baggarly,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
30 May 2025
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Starting the game in intense fashion, their decision to press Barca high up the pitch paid off as Federico Dimarco dispossessed Dani Olmo and immediately found Denzel Dumfries.—
Adam Digby,
Forbes.com,
8 May 2025
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During a discriminatory apartheid government that ended in the mid-1990s, Black South Africans were forcibly dispossessed of their lands for the benefit of Whites.—
Nimi Princewill,
CNN Money,
21 May 2025
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“Defenestrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/defenestrate. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.
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