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shutting down

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Last week, Canada's Blue Diamond Resorts announced it was shutting down its 62 properties in Cuba.

From Barron's • Jun. 6, 2026

Questions were being asked about Knight, too, despite Edwards shutting down those concerns, but with such statement performances from both batters, opener Sophia Dunkley is now in the spotlight.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

If the temperature remains constant, they’re going to consider shutting down the secondary water supply.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026

"If we can interfere with MYC's role in DNA repair -- without shutting down everything MYC does in healthy cells -- we may be able to make cancer cells more vulnerable to treatment."

From Science Daily • May 17, 2026

Most of us, under pressure, get too aroused, and past a certain point, our bodies begin shutting down so many sources of information that we start to become useless.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell



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