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populate). The wild card is the middle part, that funny-sounding "bob." Blackburn, citing linguist [Ben Zimmer's work](https://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/getting-discombobulated-on-lexicon-valley/#:~:text=The%20change%20from%20%2Derate%20or,bobbery%2Dbob%20came%20to%20be.), thinks "bob" comes from "[bobbery](https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bobbery)," an Anglo-Indian word
less distinct. Even before this year’s monsoon season officially began, hospitals in several cities reported a rise in suspected dengue cases. According to the National Center for Vector Borne Diseases Control (NCVBDC), India reported
human screeners. The U.S. Coast Guard can then use that information to alert vessels and ships. "We want the word to get out," says Gary Reed, director of Vessel Traffic Service San Francisco
population (those in receipt of Home Office support) has been gradually falling. But ultimately a lot of refugees still gravitate to Glasgow even if they were housed elsewhere while awaiting asylum decisions, because there
less to worry about if another fire happened in the future,” we’d go with that, Colleen Warnesky said. ](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/3645x3645+733+0/resize/100/quality/85/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F62%2Fa9%2Fc3a007714f51ae166e5eb0f78248%2Fimg-0906-1-1.jpg)](https://www.npr.org/2026/04/27/nx-s1-5786911/climate-disaster-victims-are-rebuilding-using-prefab-homes-from-boxy-to-bespoke) ### [Climate](https://www.npr.org/sections/climate) ### [Climate disaster victims are rebuilding using prefab homes from
less damaged than that of other cities in Gaza during the war. Badwan places his hopes on a new municipal council capable of handling the scale of the crisis left by the war, away from
population, or one in 50 Salvadorans, was being held in confinement – the highest imprisonment rate in the world, prompting serious concern about human rights violations. One legal study found that the mass arrests may have
Area, Seattle and East Rutherford, New Jersey, which is about 10 miles from Manhattan.  A view of Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
population](https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/paper/HumanTollGaza), and flattening the strip in what the [UN has declared a genocide](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/16/the-guardian-view-on-un-genocide-finding-britain-and-the-world-can-no-longer-look-away). Netanyahu remains on trial for three counts of corruption. Much has changed since Israeli voters last
human rights abuses in its fishing industry. **Nicole Tung/*Fondation Carmignac*** Nicole Tung/*Fondation Carmignac* ![A Burmese dock worker sorted different fish species after a catch from a Thai vessel was unloaded at a landing