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Xcel predicts the need for power will grow at the same time that its coal plants are being retired to make the transition to more renewable energy.—
Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 21 Apr. 2026
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The show follows a group of exiles led by mathematician Hari Seldon (Jared Harris), who predicts the fall of the world's ruling empire.— Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 21 Apr. 2026
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Deloitte forecasts that by 2030, the number of online shoppers in smaller cities will be roughly double that in major metros, with average monthly spending per user rising to $45 from $25 in 2025.— Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 16 Apr. 2026
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But in its Monday afternoon outlook, the National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center, which forecasts severe thunderstorms and tornadoes, did not anticipate a tornado threat for the Kansas City area.— Evan Bush, NBC news, 16 Apr. 2026
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But a lack of accountability presages failure for California’s big reform.— Rachel Canter, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2026
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An index of 50 is balanced and presages neither economic expansion nor contraction.— Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 5 Apr. 2026
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This leads to the fracture in Catherine and Heathcliff's relationship that dooms them all to ruin.— Megan McCluskey, Time, 13 Feb. 2026
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Without that sense of desperate loneliness, what dooms Frankenstein and the Creature to their deaths?— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
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Thus, Botticelli’s Jesus, who stares at the fruit in deep thought, perhaps prophesies his own death and return, as opposed to the child in the Dreyfus Madonna, who proudly shows the unity of his church to his mother.— Demir Alp, JSTOR Daily, 29 Aug. 2025
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Sugar Mountain Ski Resort hosts an Oktoberfest the weekend of October 11 to 12 this year, and the annual Woolly Warm Festival, which has a caterpillar race that prophesies the length of winter, runs October 18 and 19.— Graham Averill, Outside Online, 12 Sep. 2023
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From the Russian perspective, all of this lines up with Europe’s history and foretells its destiny.— Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2026
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The evidence foretells what’s in store for the future.— Keiji Horikawa, The Conversation, 22 Dec. 2025
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The broader picture augurs well for the Israeli home front.— Michael M. Rosen, The Washington Examiner, 13 Mar. 2026
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And that really augurs the potential for severe and prolonged enduring instability in this region.— ABC News, ABC News, 1 Mar. 2026
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