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Walmart is expanding its network of charging stations for electric vehicles in the new year at nearly 80 stores throughout the country, including a half dozen in the Charlotte region.
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Charlotte Observer, 9 Jan. 2026
Six for one, 2024, a multi-figure composition partially inspired by Jacques-Louis David’s Intervention of the Sabine Women, 1799, depicts a slave-trading tribe’s celebration of the exchange of a half dozen Africans for a single trophy horse.
—James Meyer, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
The officers then opened fire more than a half dozen times, according to the video.
—Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 17 Dec. 2025
Since then, the court received a half dozen letters of support for Littlejohn, many of them from juvenile justice personnel.
—Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 9 Dec. 2025
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Charlotte Observer, 9 Jan. 2026
Six for one, 2024, a multi-figure composition partially inspired by Jacques-Louis David’s Intervention of the Sabine Women, 1799, depicts a slave-trading tribe’s celebration of the exchange of a half dozen Africans for a single trophy horse.
—James Meyer, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
The officers then opened fire more than a half dozen times, according to the video.
—Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 17 Dec. 2025
Since then, the court received a half dozen letters of support for Littlejohn, many of them from juvenile justice personnel.
—Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 9 Dec. 2025
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“Half dozen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/half%20dozen. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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