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Recent Examples of ancientlyTell El-Fara’in, anciently known as Imet, was a significant urban and religious hub from the Middle Kingdom onward.—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025 Eleven miles west, crossing the Piave again but this time onto flatter lands, grown in the anciently rural Tezze di Piave, Cecchetto’s Raboso wines match Prosecco’s acidic presence as instead vertical reds complex with pine, wild berries, and spicy notes.—Susan H. Gordon, Phd, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024 It was used anciently as a preservative, a seasoning, and medicinally for its antibacterial properties.—Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2024 In several of the poesie paintings, Titian cast the faces of his protagonists in shadow, obscuring our sense of their inner lives, making them at once more anciently remote and more humanly familiar.—Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2021
This comes after airspace violations involving balloons carrying contraband cigarettes which had previously forced the closure of airspace earlier in the month.
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Brendan Cole,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Oct. 2025
As a result of the new agreement, Little Rock officers and sergeants will get another 5% pay increase in 2027 on top of the 5% increases previously negotiated for 2025 and 2026.
The formerly seven-member CMC headed by Xi has lost three members since 2023 in a string of anti-corruption purges.
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Reuters,
NBC news,
23 Oct. 2025
The latter, the socialite says in the clip, may be caused by her stress amid the aftermath of her divorce from the rapper formerly known as Kanye West.
Those who have a personal my Social Security account may be able to view their COLA notice earlier online.
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Ingrid Vasquez,
PEOPLE,
25 Oct. 2025
Officials at the college of roughly 2,800 undergraduates initially notified students on Sunday about Smith, whose disappearance was reported to Middlebury police earlier that afternoon.
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss The Winklevoss twins became some of the first cryptocurrency billionaires after using a multi-million-dollar legal settlement from Mark Zuckerberg to invest in Bitcoin more than a decade ago.
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Melanie Hicken,
CNN Money,
24 Oct. 2025
That was the opposite decision of Joe Biden, who allowed Lai’s predecessor Tsai Ing-wen on a sensitive New York City stopover two years ago.
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