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He says he is "curious to see how the half-time show affects the game in general".
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
"Being impacted by such a rare, distant projectile really underscores how unlucky the dinosaurs were," says Dr. Claeys.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
A probe into donations allegedly siphoned off at India's grand Ram temple has renewed scrutiny of how religious sites manage vast amounts of cash and gold entrusted to them by devotees.
From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026
"They are essential to eco-systems", he says, detailing how as scavengers they remove tonnes of waste on a "phenomenal scale".
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
While I’m fiddling with the radio, a traffic report comes in about how backed up the street that we normally drive on is.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
“The hows and the wherefores can wait, but it’s OK to say that I won that battle … by a story means that I wasn’t expecting.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
"We have decided to study in great detail the hows and whys of why premature birth affects the developing brain," he says.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2025
The hows are easier to explain than the whys when it comes to all this madness, so let’s start there.
From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2023
Physicists believe that there must have been some primordial imbalance that allowed matter to dominate the universe, yet the hows and whys remain open questions.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 27, 2023
I have to hear the hows and whys and what-ifs.
From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi
