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Recent Examples of B and B
If one were to use that fundamental mathematical principle — often referenced as if A=B and B=C then A=C — entering Thursday’s Class 4A state football quarterfinal, things did not look promising for Hill-Murray but did for Kasson-Mantorville.
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Mike Cook,
Twin Cities,
7 Nov. 2025
Mike Cook,
Twin Cities,
7 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for B and B
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Listen to Live Music Cedar Mountain Outpost is a little bit of everything—deli, wine shop, public house, and live music venue, improbably set within a gas station.
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This provoked what became known as the Aston Riot, with nearby public houses wrecked and violent brawls ensuing.
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Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford and his wife, Kelly, were spotted leaving their hotel en route to the celebration, while Fox Sports personalities Erin Andrews and Charissa Thompson were also seen arriving for the event.
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Everyone from Ed Sheeran to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell were spotted, as were several Kansas City Chiefs players, many of whom were captured loading into blacked out sprinter vans from a swanky hotel that media and some fans staked out.
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There’s also a guesthouse for the caretaker.
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The Colonial Revival home features six bedrooms and eight bathrooms in roughly 7,000 square feet across two levels, plus a separate guesthouse.
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The Aurora Inn, initially constructed in 1833, was the first of the inns to be restored in 2003.
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His mother, who came from a somewhat shady family (her father had been part of a coin-forging group whose ringleaders were arrested and beheaded), helped run the inn; his sister was twelve years older.
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Penny Lane The Lark Hotel Group has taken over a former motor inn that had seen better days.
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Michigan Lake Shore Resort, Saugatuck Lake Shore's retro vibe is the real deal—Joseph and Anna Milauckas built the place as a motor inn in 1952.
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Gallagher is accused in the March 21, 2022, killing of her uncle, Thomas Arthur Burke, a 74-year-old who was dying of cancer while in hospice care at his Fort Lauderdale home.
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My personal experience of AIDS comes from my aunt, Lory Lobiondo, who became a hospice nurse after her best friend died of AIDS in 1987.
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He’s accused of using a cellphone, the internet and interstate highways, among other means, while planning and carrying out the attack, as well as staying at a hostel that serves out-of-state customers.
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Calling it a closet feels a bit like calling the Ritz a hostel.
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Built from the bones of a 12th-century hostelry, its hub is a vast, glamorous lounge bar complete with mixologists shaking modern-day mocktails under the ancient beams.
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Austin could see the Statler from the elevated tram, a 15-story red brick Italianate building on Grand Circus Park, opened in 1915 as one of the first modern hostelries with a shower and toilet in every room.
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