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Scotland don't just concede goals, they create calamities - the sort of slapstick defending that a player such as Vini Jr is waiting to take advantage of.

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2026

Dahlia and Mark sort through the brutalizing, even lethal implications for asylum seekers and more than 1 million recipients of temporary protected status, or TPS.

From Slate • Jun. 25, 2026

The first is some sort of “event” — like the COVID-19 pandemic or 9/11.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 25, 2026

His modern vino de cocos may not exactly be the sort of spirit you’d want to sip at leisure, like mezcal or tequila.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2026

Every year this sort of talk went on between him and my mother, Mary K. When he went out on the ice they would always talk this way and always about a dream he'd had.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell