Expansion-history comparison for selected CMB-1000 best fits. The first three panels show every measured DESI DR2 transverse, radial, and isotropic BAO/AP distance, respectively, normalized by the ΛCDM best fit. At the Lyα redshift the BAO-only point is replaced by the recent joint BAO+AP compression  (DESI Collaboration et al. 2026). The final panel shows the DES Dovekie distance-modulus residuals (B. Popovic et al. 2025). For visualization only, the supernovae are binned following M. Abdul Karim et al. (2025); the likelihood itself is evaluated using the unbinned sample.