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For Jeremy Stahl, whose family is French and Moroccan, Thursday’s quarterfinal game between his two ancestral countries was a special blend of pain and pleasure.

From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2026

Masking, camouflaging, trying to blend in - this is what women with autism have been practising to navigate a world that for decades did not even recognise their existence.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026

"We hide how we are because we are conditioned by society to blend in."

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026

Melissa Vogel, a business anthropologist formerly of Clemson University, said the phenomenon also reflects deeper cultural patterns that blend Catholic imagery with indigenous traditions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

He saw the panic in his face as the police drew closer, and he watched his body slowly blend into the background and disappear entirely.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

She calls this “extended reality,” a computer-generated environment that blends the physical and digital worlds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

Across 15 tracks, it blends Indian musicians with archive recordings by the band's deceased collaborators - from actor Dennis Hopper to D12 rapper Proof - creating a bridge between the living and the dead.

From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026

Led by a wellness coach, Dad’s Link Golf Club blends community, fatherhood and fellowship to help dads focus on mental health.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

Designed to exude a feeling of “understated luxury,” the well-appointed abode was built and decorated with only the most high-caliber materials, starting with its limestone facade, which blends beautifully with the greenery that surrounds it.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 5, 2026

He blends into the background, the same way his features blend into each other—pale skin and hair and teeth and shirt—all yellowed shades of white.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

Border Patrol agents have long blended in the community almost like a part of the landscape, some residents are on edge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026

Meta’s custom-chip business could also create “a credible path to lower blended cost per unit of compute,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026

The researchers believe this is because the plastic becomes blended into the asphalt binder.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 28, 2026

Fantasy and reality have collided so often throughout his career that they’ve blended into one.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026

And Mom, her fiery-red hair blended into her short, long-sleeved dress emblazoned with the gold Starfleet logo on the chest.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

The church is a “serious house on serious earth ... In whose blent air all our compulsions meet, are recognised, and robed as destinies,” he writes.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 17, 2015

In whose blent air all our compulsions meet, Are recognized, and robed as destinies.

From Time Magazine Archive

A calm, subdued triumph, blent with a longing earnestness, marked his enunciation of the last glorious verses of that chapter.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

A soft hope blent with my sorrow that soon I should dare to drop a kiss on that brow of rock, and on those lips so sternly sealed beneath it: but not yet.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Presently a voice blent with the rich tones of the instrument; it was a lady who sang, and very sweet her notes were.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

British architect Edwin Lutyens was credited with blending European styles and Indian architectural motifs in the new imperial capital, which was inaugurated in 1931.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

In a blog post, external covering the new announcement, Meta said the tool uses "advanced reasoning to understand complex prompts, seamlessly blending multiple photos into high-quality creations you can download and share anywhere".

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

There was something calming and oceanic about the rhythm of rolls and cracks around her, blending with the ambient murmur of banter and gossip into white noise.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026

“A celebrated tastemaker with an unmatched eye for design, Diane Keaton spent decades transforming homes into works of art, blending timeless architecture with warmth, authenticity, and soul,” the latest listing states.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026

I paint a girl with white hair, blending into a forest of white trees, with stars exploding in the sky above them like shattering glass.

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman