as in scans
to look over closely (as for judging quality or condition)
check out the house and let me know if you think it's worth buying
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as in dies
to stop living
there are a lot of sights around the world that I want to see before I check out
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The observatory has spent over two decades as a sort of orbital sentinel that scans the cosmos for gamma-ray bursts, ready to quickly point itself at the short-lived — but insanely powerful — space explosions at a moment's notice.
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Dark Web Monitoring scans the dark web for your data, and Privacy Monitor seeks your data profile on data broker and aggregator websites.
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Ramsay, a mother of four, including Dylan, has become someone grieving families often call when their child dies in the water.
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In some, a personal account is frozen the moment its holder dies and is not released without the consent of every heir and a matching court process.
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Schedule system reviews quarterly and assign ownership, with one person responsible for auditing each system, flagging outdated steps and implementing improvements.
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She's being held on $50,000 bail as the District Attorney's Office reviews the case.
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Men leaders can pay attention to and be mindful of who in the workplace may be playing more of an emotional support role that falls outside their job description.
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Royal Week falls ahead of Prince Harry's upcoming trip to the United Kingdom.
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In a new story, The Washington Post examines how these four women are navigating this increasingly common reality in the United States.
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This hard-to-watch documentary examines the case, how hospital administrators caught Letby, and the complex feelings of the surviving families.
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Luke Evans steps out in New York City on June 13.
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The surveillance system at her home captured Allen walking down her steps out of the edge of her yard, pointing.
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The company organizes thousands of AI agents into statistically representative populations—each agent assigned an age, an income, a zip code, a gender, among other things—and surveys them in place of human respondents.
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Sartori surveys the lagoon weekly by boat for signs of nesting, which would indicate a self-sustaining Venetian colony.
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This year’s final Edinburgh kicks off in around two months and its keynote MacTaggart lecture will be delivered by YouTube EMEA boss Pedro Pina.
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And the time to start is right now, not eighteen months before the sale process kicks off.
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“Checks (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/checks%20%28out%29. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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