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Given their influence, it’s perhaps no surprise, then, that Mr. Dylan has said that he “knew they were pointing the direction of where music had to go. In my head, the Beatles were it.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

"They were the leading figure in the K-pop scene to make aggressive use of social content, perhaps as an alternative, as it was difficult for idols from smaller agencies to secure TV appearances."

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

Previous work by the UMass Amherst team suggests that these explosions might occur more often than expected, perhaps once every decade.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2026

A journalist — or perhaps several of them — reported that when an American F-15E Strike Eagle was shot down over Iran last Friday, both crew members were not immediately accounted for.

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026

They had hoped that more earthquakes, or perhaps a new growth on the bulge, would signal that the big one—the eruption they were all waiting for—was about to happen.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone