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While the brand encourages using oil, in tests the surface released pancakes and scallops with ease; eggs clung a bit.

The US and China have clung to a fragile trade ceasefire brokered in May, preventing triple-digit tariffs that was threatened between both countries.

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“At this pace, subscription video platforms that cling to the traditional model risk becoming the next generation of ‘legacy’ media—no one is immune,” he wrote.

When dust clings to a surface or a gecko walks across a ceiling, it happens thanks to what scientists call "nature's invisible glue."

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Darkness clings to the sky as thousands of bikers zoom across a dusty alkaline flat in search of a sunrise set, hoping to outpace the gash of periwinkle light bleeding over the horizon.

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