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test-drives

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plural of test-drive

as in observations

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With surveying capabilities more than 1,000 times faster than the Hubble Space Telescope, Roman will capture fundamentally different scientific observations that can’t be done with either Hubble or the James Webb Space Telescope.

— Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026
Those observations will inform an aspirational future mission — the Habitable Worlds Observatory, which aims to view Earth-like planets more than 1 billion times dimmer than their host stars.

— Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026

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The proposal aims to restrict the use of self-checkouts in grocery stores and mandates how food retailers staff their checkout lanes.

— Wayne Pesce, Hartford Courant, 16 Mar. 2026
Some self-checkouts are changing Some retailers have changed or pulled back their self-checkout offerings, as previously reported by USA TODAY.

— Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 8 Dec. 2025

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Lefties, meanwhile, should wear their watches on the right wrist for the exact same reasons.

— Larissa Ratschkowski, Glamour, 30 Aug. 2026
Tornados are relatively rare in Italy, and there were no watches or warnings for the possibility of such a weather event were issued, according to Italy’s civil protection agency.

— Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2026

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