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Recent Examples of ancientlyEleven 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
On its face, the action was taken to close loopholes that in some cases allowed dozens of backyard apartments on formerly single-family-home lots.
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Michael Smolens,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 June 2025
The Rancho Cordova Police Department said in a social media post on X, formerly Twitter, around 9:40 p.m. that southbound Sunrise Boulevard near Gold Country Boulevard was closed due to a vehicle accident and warned drivers to use an alternate route.
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