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"We are going to achieve such a victory that will surprise everyone, perhaps even ourselves," he told several thousand supporters in a small square on Budapest's Castle Hill.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026

At a recent analyst call, management reaffirmed its 2026 guidance of oil and gas production of 165-175 thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day, up from 156 mboepd last year, the analysts note.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

“It’s been a death by a thousand cuts, and this is the last big chomp,” she said.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2026

Based on its own testing, Anthropic predicts it could find “over a thousand more critical severity vulnerabilities and thousands more high severity vulnerabilities.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

The eastern-most port of the Erie Canal, Albany had grown to about fifty thousand residents.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock