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Kind has three children with his ex-wife, Dana Stanley.
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Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 6 June 2026
Halle Berry and her ex Gabriel Aubry reunited in Los Angeles on Thursday.
—Lara Walsh, InStyle, 6 June 2026
Jackson’s ex-wife Debbie Rowe was meant to take the stand as a smoking gun for the prosecution but instead revealed no new information and came to Jackson’s defense.
—Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2026
Names in that space include the VanEck Preferred Securities ex Financials ETF (PFXF) , which has a total return of about 9% year to date, according to Morningstar.
—Darla Mercado, Cfp®, CNBC, 2 June 2026
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Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 6 June 2026
Halle Berry and her ex Gabriel Aubry reunited in Los Angeles on Thursday.
—Lara Walsh, InStyle, 6 June 2026
Jackson’s ex-wife Debbie Rowe was meant to take the stand as a smoking gun for the prosecution but instead revealed no new information and came to Jackson’s defense.
—Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2026
Names in that space include the VanEck Preferred Securities ex Financials ETF (PFXF) , which has a total return of about 9% year to date, according to Morningstar.
—Darla Mercado, Cfp®, CNBC, 2 June 2026
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Noun
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Ahead of a 2017 Formula E race in Berlin, Rosenqvist was excitedly laying plans for another IndyCar test with Ganassi after a maiden outing the previous year.—
Luke Smith,
New York Times,
25 May 2026
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Many fans thought the original covers of Pratchett’s novels went too heavy on busty maidens and strapping men with big swords, undermining their literary merit, and a similar problem has beset the various screen adaptations from Sky and the BBC.—
Helen Lewis,
The Atlantic,
24 May 2026
Noun
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Born in San Antonio to a mother who was a maid to his aristocratic father, who refused to claim him.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
8 June 2026
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Among them was Viola Davis, who earned her second Oscar nomination for portraying Aibileen Clark, a maid working for a white family in the 1960s.—
Angelique Brenes,
PEOPLE,
6 June 2026
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By contrast, the average full-time employee ages 18 to 25 with a bachelor’s degree earns $56,153, according to Census data.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
29 May 2026
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For some Illinois residents, especially adult learners balancing work and caregiving responsibilities, the prospect of taking on that level of debt places a bachelor’s degree out of reach before classes even begin.—
Muddassir Siddiqi,
Chicago Tribune,
28 May 2026
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The cast’s sole survivor is Jessica Hecht, who pours miraculous warmth and complexity into her faintly insulting role as Colleen, the head teller, a morally upright spinster goosed by her flirtation with Sonny and the spotlight.—
Emily Nussbaum,
New Yorker,
2 Apr. 2026
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There would be some updates—instead of a spinster, my protagonist, Clemence Lathbury, is a divorcee.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Mar. 2026
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“Ex.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ex. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.
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