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"The immediate concern is the plastics becoming microplastics. The mowers churn up plastic leaves and petals and it gets embedded over the years," she said.
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026
The team was first assembled midway through last year and it operates like a startup embedded within the company, giving priority to rapid development over bureaucratic procedure.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026
The coming generation of mega-IPOs may finally expose to the average investor the fiction embedded in the phrase “passive investing.”
From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026
Someone — or something — has piled lamps and stools into the center of one room, scattered chairs in another and embedded shoes into the floor as though the ground were made of sand.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
The janitor took pity on me and cleaned off the wall above my locker, even though I can still see the flecks of red crayon embedded in the crannies of the painted cinder blocks.
From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King
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