called

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Called Debug, the project targets Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which are native to Africa but have infiltrated nearly half of California’s counties since first being detected in the state in 2013.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

Called the Bergen Loop, the project is nowhere close to fruition, with the Hudson Tunnel project and various other elements of the program taking precedence.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2026

Called "high level incidents", the process allowed an internal investigation to take place without it being reported to regulators, thereby reducing the chance of external scrutiny.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

Called distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks, these were massive floods of junk internet data designed to knock websites offline by overwhelming the data pipes that connected them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

He was ready to wire in a new story: “Civil War Hero Handpicked by U. S. Grant Called to the Great Campground in the Sky.”

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck