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Today's NYT Strands hints are easy if you dress to impress.

Strands, the New York Times' elevated word-search game, requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns. Every single letter in the grid will be part of an answer. There



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The NYT Connections puzzle today is not too difficult to solve if you love summer sports.

Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some


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Sharonda Scott's spent 15 months traveling to 35 countries (including Zimbabwe, pictured).
  • Sharonda Scott, a 37-year-old Los Angeles-based stuntwoman, was burned out and ready for a reset.
  • What started as a yearlong gap year across 12 countries turned into 15 months and 35 countries.
  • Back in LA, she's now planning her next chapter — hoping to move abroad.

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Jerome Penafort, the founder of Mr. Bucket Chocolaterie in Singapore.
High cocoa prices pushed Singapore's Mr. Bucket Chocolaterie to innovate across its business.
  • Faced with soaring cocoa prices, Mr. Bucket Chocolaterie is turning crisis into creativity.
  • The Singapore chocolatier is using the whole cacao fruit and automating production to stay efficient.
  • Founder Jerome Peñafort wants to prove that Asian chocolate can rival the world's best

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Tiffany Chng and Olivia Yiong, the founders of Cheak, started off as work besties in a previous corporate job.
  • Tiffany Chng and Olivia Yiong were work besties at GuavaPass, a company bought by ClassPass.
  • Both were laid off, so during the pandemic, they ditched corporate life and launched an athleisure brand.
  • Building a brand in a hot, modest, and already saturated market like Singapore

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  • I married my husband, Scott, back in April of 2025.
  • My grandmother wrote a letter with controversial advice before the big day.
  • She warned me that married life isn't all "plain sailing."

I married my husband, Scott, in April 2025 after four years of dating.

Nobody was more excited for the wedding than our families. They rallied around us, sharing tips and calming me down when


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Last year OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he thought ads were lame. Now he seems more interested.
  • OpenAI is hiring a new "head of preparedness" to limit the downsides of AI.
  • CEO Sam Altman said the position will be "stressful" in an X post on Saturday.
  • The position pays $555,000 a year plus equity.

OpenAI wants to pay someone over half a million dollars to mitigate the downsides of AI


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