burgess
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It will stream live on free service Pluto TV starting at 3:35 p.m. and be hosted by Tony Award nominee Laura Benanti and actor Tituss Burgess.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2026
“It had an aura of roadside diner about it. … Everybody would see the giant penguin out there. I don’t think Burgess Meredith ever ate there, though.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
Rick Burgess from the Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People said research suggested thousands of people were in arrears to their councils.
From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026
The Burgess Shale, which dates back around 500 million years, contains soft tissues from some of the earliest animal life on Earth.
From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2026
It had taken fifty-three years, but finally Mason Darlington Burgess, the good-for-nothing heir to the Darlington fortune, had discovered the secret ingredient to his own mother’s peanut butter recipe.
From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff
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