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The Ducks mounted a furious rally after pulling Dostal with about two minutes to play, but that ended with Marner clearing the puck the length of the ice into the empty net.
From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026
A copy of the Daily Mail dated 12 June 1944 - days after D-Day - reports that "battle rages around empty Caen" and "trap closing on Nazis".
From BBC • May 4, 2026
Hotel owner Abu Ali, 52, was forced to lay off five employees, leaving just one to tend to nearly 70 empty rooms.
From Barron's • May 4, 2026
"For the first time, we can put a precise number on just how empty this 'desert' is," said Dr. Kaiming Cui, Postdoctoral Researcher at Warwick and first author of the population study.
From Science Daily • May 3, 2026
I sweep the empty cookie tins from under my bed, arrange my dirty blouses into a pile.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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Common Five-letter Words for Wordle, List 4
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