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as in among
in or into the middle of having grown up amid farmers and ranchers, Keith still thinks of himself as a country boy at heart

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as in during
in the course of amidst the messy divorce proceedings they never forgot that their children mattered most

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Recent Examples of amid But California prisons are competing for behavioral health workers amid a roughly 40% shortage of psychologists and psychiatrists in the state, and that shortfall is expected to get worse. Don Thompson, Sacbee.com, 30 May 2025 Anderson has always been interested in the complicated relationships between parents and kids, especially those amid a tense reconciliation. Shannon Carlin, Time, 30 May 2025 To understand what’s at stake amid the NNSA’s workforce woes, USA TODAY interviewed current and former agency officials and reviewed decades of watchdog reports, safety records and other official documents. Davis Winkie, USA Today, 19 May 2025 Madeline Coleman Williams rockets ahead in 2025’s ‘best of the rest’ battle Williams’ race showed how the Imola contest was about strategy amid the passing challenge, plus a dash of luck. Luke Smith, New York Times, 18 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for amid
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  • Worker confidence among Gen Zers in the United States recently tumbled to record lows, even lower than at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to LinkedIn.
    Matt Egan, CNN Money, 2 June 2025
  • Acknowledging an ebullient entrepreneurial spirit among the youth in the Kingdom with a strong female component, too, Zinola said that the school’s ultimate goal is to foster those creative and business seeds.
    Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 2 June 2025
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  • Will Smith was banned from the Oscars for ten years after slapping a fellow artist during a live broadcast.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 31 May 2025
  • Tax Cuts and Tax Breaks in the Big Beautiful Bill Lowers Tax Brackets The new legislation makes the lower income tax rates created during the first Trump Administration in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) permanent.
    Cindy McGhee, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025

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“Amid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amid. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.

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