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The United States has already used a wide variety of military capabilities in the conflict to strike thousands of targets in Iran.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

The U.S., which hasn’t posted a clean sheet since September, has become an error-prone mess on defense, with Pochettino’s wide, attack-minded approach revealing a structural fragility that has left the Americans’ thin back line exposed.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

This period marked a dramatic shift from simple organisms to a wide variety of more advanced life forms.

From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026

They have won pretty much everywhere with a wide range of candidates—in special elections and regular elections in deep red territory and in more contested geographies, running candidates of the far left and the center-left.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

He steadied himself on the walls on either side, huffing and puffing and quite worried he was going to blow the house down, when, at last, the stairs flattened into a wide room.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman