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inanes

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plural of inane

as in black holes

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That is because, despite having many times more mass than the sun, black holes are smaller than the sun with radii ranging from 6 miles to 190 miles (9 kilometers to 300 kilometers).

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2026
Some of the most cataclysmic events in the cosmos, such as mergers of supermassive black holes, should produce a very specific gravitational wave signature, according to general relativity.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 7 Oct. 2026

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The district currently has seven vacancies among its firefighter-paramedic ranks, Snedeker noted.

— Darrielle Fair, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026
Placer County voters will decide two ballot measures in November that could change how the county’s top administrator is removed from office and how vacancies on the Board of Supervisors are filled.

— Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 14 Oct. 2026

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With so few ancient samples of dodo DNA surviving—and that which does exist having degraded over the centuries—the analytic and number-crunching power of AI is just what’s needed to fill in the genetic blanks.

— Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 14 Oct. 2026
The shoot involved firing blanks and igniting explosions, theatrics that shocked the film’s residential neighbors and spurred concerns over public safety.

— ABC News, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2026

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