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as in to live
to have life
stories that begin with the familiar line "once upon a time there was a beautiful maiden"
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as in to happen
to take place
the party is next Saturday
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According to numerous news outlets, there is an audio recording of the transaction.
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Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
There are also adjustable shutters fitted on skylights through which suspended glass courtyards and gardens can be seen.
—Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2025
Yeah, there were similarities between different things in the creative.
—Michael Saponara, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2025
There were some limitations to the research, the authors acknowledged.
—Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2025
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Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
There are also adjustable shutters fitted on skylights through which suspended glass courtyards and gardens can be seen.
—Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2025
Yeah, there were similarities between different things in the creative.
—Michael Saponara, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2025
There were some limitations to the research, the authors acknowledged.
—Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2025
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And his spirit will live forever in every groove, every stage, every memory.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
19 Oct. 2025
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Her mother died in this house in 2020 due to early-onset Alzheimer's after living here with her father, Gerry Grubbs, for about 15 years, DesRochers tells me.—
Grace Tucker,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
18 Oct. 2025
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Theresa’s mother died in 2019, but her father stood with prosecutors at the news conference Wednesday.—
Lauren del Valle,
CNN Money,
16 Oct. 2025
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Nobody is going to ‘cash out’, and Perez himself does not stand to benefit financially.—
Dermot Corrigan,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Chicago ranks 23rd in EPA/play, according to TruMedia, and its most impressive performance has come against a dreadful Cowboys defense.—
Austin Mock,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Board members used a points system to rank their top three choices; each member's top candidate received three points, their second choice received two points and their third choice received one point.—
Edward McKinnon,
Arkansas Online,
16 Oct. 2025
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There was a chill in the air, but for Liverpool’s midfielder, newly arrived from Spain, the real culture shock was what happened on the pitch.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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At the time, authorities said several companies operated on the Accurate Energetic Systems property, but the blast happened in an area operated by Rio Ammunition.—
Isabel Rosales,
CNN Money,
16 Oct. 2025
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With so much talk about evolution this season, using new signings and existing players in different ways could be key for Arteta.—
Art de Roché,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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But the technology to detect that when Paul Mellon bought it in the middle of the twentieth century to give to the Beinecke Library at Yale didn’t exist yet.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
16 Oct. 2025
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In the constellation Cepheus lies the barred spiral galaxy NGC 6951.—
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry,
Space.com,
20 Oct. 2025
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He is drawn to homes whose beauty lies buried beneath decades of stale design choices and neglect.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
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In April, ahead of QPR’s final Championship match of the season away to Sunderland, Cifuentes was placed on gardening leave.—
Rob Tanner,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Researchers pointed out that in laboratory experiments, the glasses were placed in pure water at 90 degrees Celsius for up to 112 days.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Oct. 2025
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The protests come amid a federal government shutdown now in its 18th day, broader immigration enforcement operations, and the deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago and Los Angeles.—
Adeola Adeosun,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Oct. 2025
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Regulators say more crashes may come Tesla's latest FSD software update arrived just days before the investigation began.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
18 Oct. 2025
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“Be.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/be. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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