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The fashions are what the fashions are, and yet over and over it feels like, really, he could have written this yesterday.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026
Well, then the sound of television writer Joe Wiseman clearing his throat over and over again might as well be Gilbert Gottfried’s laugh scratching against a chalkboard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
Like a tennis player practicing serves, it’s by writing lines of code over and over that young engineers discover how to spot bugs—and learn from their mistakes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
But critics say that streaming services are increasingly encouraging listeners to play the same playlists of familiar songs over and over again, creating a bottleneck that makes it harder for new music to break through.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
In a short time she had folded it over and over into a beautiful crane.
From "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" by Eleanor Coerr
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