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Major League Baseball’s official app, long one of my favorites, has gradually surrounded baseball scores and video with window dressing that has made the app feel heavier.
From Slate • Jun. 10, 2026
Then Golding wrote, “Softly, surrounded by a fringe of inquisitive bright creatures, itself a silver shape beneath the steadfast constellations, Simon’s dead body moved out towards the open sea.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
Protagonist Clark loses himself in it, transforming into an unapologetic narcissist surrounded only by facile representations of humanity.
From Salon • Jun. 8, 2026
He lived in a 4,100-square-foot brick home surrounded by a manicured lawn, with gold-framed photos from his recent wedding in the entryway.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026
It shows a half-man, half-woman surrounded by the signs of the zodiac and the four "humors" that for centuries doctors believed controlled health—blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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