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More than half of them were Black men; nearly all of them were put to death in Florida, Oklahoma, or Texas.

From Slate • Jun. 8, 2026

Authorities vowed to continue the search for a hiker who went missing near Lake Tahoe on Memorial Day, despite sending nearly all rescue crews home last Monday amid fears the man had died.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2026

The new process instead recovers nearly all dissolved salts in solid form.

From Science Daily • May 31, 2026

Over the past five years, that belief has helped the 70-year-old Kroenke conquer nearly all of the richest and most popular leagues in sports.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

By the end of the fourteenth century, nearly all of music’s vital components had been discovered: notation, both melodic and rhythmic; structural organisation; and polyphony, the layering of voices on top of one another.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall