brutal
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Aryna Sabalenka has learned the hard way that she has two brutal rivals in women’s tennis: Elena Rybakina, and her own bubbling frustration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
In nearly three years since the brutal attack on Israel, American Jews have been experiencing unprecedented trauma and despair, with escalating antisemitism around the world and across our own country.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Another day of brutal heat and energy-sapping humidity is in store for Southern California, continuing what has been a remarkably muggy summer that’s brought wildfires, coastal erosion and death.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
"Nine years after Daphne's brutal assassination, the institutional failures that enabled her murder remain unaddressed and unreformed."
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
In that first, brutal winter Burnham’s photographer, Charles Arnold, took a very different series of photographs.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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Wintry Words
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