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  • present tense form of state (3rd person singular).
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Caremark’s benefit designs once drew members to CVS counters, but many states have moved to restrict such arrangements, and some have moved to ban common ownership of pharmacies and pharmacy-benefit managers, or PBMs, outright.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

But this year, that pattern was shattered as Methodist megachurch pastor Adam Hamilton in Kansas and Presbyterian seminarian James Talarico in Texas won in deeply conservative states that hadn't elected a Democratic senator in decades.

From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2026

The engineered layers caused the bismuth ferrite to exhibit altermagnetism, an unusual form of magnetism that combines useful characteristics of two more familiar magnetic states: ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026

Nato aircraft based in the Baltic states were in the air at the time, but Herem said it had not been considered safe for them to destroy the drones.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026

A sectional understanding had emerged whereby northern states had agreed not to tamper with the property rights of southern states.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis


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