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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has posted videos of vessels exploding with the glee of a hormone-addled tween playing Call of Duty, and more than a dozen strikes since early September have killed nearly 60 civilians.

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Every time the audience would explode into laughter, he’d look a little heartbroken.

Such conversations are becoming increasingly common as demand for weight-loss drugs explodes in urban India - a country with the world's second-largest number of overweight adults and more than 77 million people with Type 2 diabetes.

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He added: "I've never seen anything like this, it looks like a bomb exploded."

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Lego’s adult fan base has exploded since 2020, when the company began targeting them with sets sleekly packaged in black.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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