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can do

[kan-doo] / ˈkænˈdu /






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“Not much the firefighters can do when it was blowing that hard,” said Kelly Singer, acting deputy fire chief for the newly minted U.S.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

Steph Houghton: It's a tough group for them but I think they will make it out of there, and they will believe they can do something special.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

"Ionic liquids are very stable and can even remain a liquid in space, which not a lot of materials can do," Bruno says.

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

The accounts themselves aren’t new, but what you can do with them fundamentally changed.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

“Yeah. Like if you can do that, you should have gotten Denny to hand over my ‘ukulele yesterday, and you should make Titus talk to someone—anyone— on the bus.”

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila




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