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From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2026

“We have to take your word for it, right?”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

While the rescue attempt was taking place, the agency spread word the airman had already been found and was being extracted from Iran.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

This designation means that universities will reinvest any leftover funds after expenses – they don’t use the word “profit” – into programs that advance the university’s mission.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

For all Tante Jans’s talk about it, death had been only a word.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom