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The drier and warmer theme has also taken hold in India, where the essential monsoon rainfall has been 13% below average.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Hartnett’s work is dynamic and unsettling, making what could be a forgettable tertiary character into an integral part of the story that viewers hold in the back of their minds, even when he’s offscreen.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026
Reitzes upgraded shares of Microsoft to buy from hold in his latest note to clients.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
As the AI boom took hold in the early 2020s, Scale grew into a key vendor for top AI labs, making Wang one of the world’s youngest self-made billionaires.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
If there really was a fire in one of the storage pools, there was nothing to hold in radioactive materials, which would be carried in the smoke.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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