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As Robert Francis Prevost, he served for almost two decades as a missionary in the South American country, and his emotionally-charged homecoming will conclude in a key center of Catholicism.
From Barron's ● Nov. 15, 2026
Carson Guzzo was the starting center for Simi Valley’s freshman football team this season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2026
Amid palm-oil plantations, trucks this past week rumbled in and out of a data center under construction by Vena Group, which is backed by American asset manager BlackRock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2026
Lines is weighing sites for its first ship-based data center, according to Shinichi Ogawa, who leads the effort.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
When each bird was holding a berry they all faced front and ate them, working the pulp off until they had the meat and spitting out the center pit.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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It led to 17 out of the FAA’s 22 centers that oversee high-altitude flying to experience disruptions in communications, Bedford said, resulting in the FAA ordering the ground stop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2026
These brilliant galactic centers, powered by enormous black holes, were already radiating as much light as a trillion Suns when the Universe was only 670 million years old, about 5% of its present age.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2026
Another major advantage is that the AI system works with ordinary EKG images, which are already routinely collected in hospitals and medical centers around the world.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2026
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has expressed a desire to put data centers in space, and the Bernstein team thinks “there are no fundamental physics or engineering barriers preventing orbital data centers.”
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 14, 2026
Keeps him away by talking with Olivia about the growing, growing numbers of their GoFundMe, about the invitations that are piling up for her to visit schools and community centers.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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The outage affected a range of Microsoft 365 services, but it centered on Exchange Online and email services, Microsoft said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
The priorities are centered around four pillars including targeted action on the cost of living, restoring Jersey's competitiveness, investing in homes and infrastructure and maintaining financial stability.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026
Colello said Nvidia appeared to have done little succession planning, given how much of the company’s leadership and decision-making centered on Huang.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026
A source told People that Harry and Meghan have established a schedule centered around their children’s school hours, while continuing to prioritize spending time together as a family.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026
Here the theorem provides the theoretical support for the fact that the measurements of any quantity tend to follow a normal bell-shaped “error curve” centered on the true value of the quantity being measured.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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Owner Matthew Chernus opened the restaurant on Bayshore Beach in 2023, closing the Alhambra location and centering operations on one end of Long Beach’s Alamitos Peninsula.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
City were accused of a wide range of rule breaches, centering around claims they inflated sponsorship revenue from connected companies and made other "off the books" payments to circumvent financial regulations.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
“My job is to always be centering folks in the work.”
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Hershey Pa.’s Christian Pulisic set up a sequence that led to a Paraguay own goal, and then, not long after, zipped a centering pass to the 24-year-old Balogun to make it 2-0.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
When work resumed, the flying buttresses of the choir were completed and the centering was readied for the first stones of the vault.
From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay
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