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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
Officials previously asked for the public's help in identifying a suspect.
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Matthew Cupelli,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
4 Oct. 2025
The skillet beef and white queso were previously one of the least popular menu items, Chili’s said in its release, only accounting for less than 1 percent of sales.
Monday’s classes had been cancelled after a deadly attack the day before at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints a half-mile away.
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John Wisely,
Freep.com,
3 Oct. 2025
The journalists were among 15 people arrested during the July 17 demonstration held in support of Imam Ayman Soliman, an Egyptian immigrant and former Cincinnati Children's chaplain who was detained by ICE several days before.
Leslie Cheek’s formerly private estate opened as a public garden and fine art center in 1960 and today is host to nearly a dozen gardens surrounding the family’s Georgian mansion, which has become a museum.
Milwaukee's Office of Community Wellness and Safety was formerly known as the Office of Violence Prevention and is currently housed in the city's Department of Administration.
Democrats want to overturn spending cuts Republicans approved earlier in the year for Medicaid, which provides health insurance for Americans living in or near poverty, and extend insurance subsidies created by the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
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Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
4 Oct. 2025
That big package that got final approval in July included dozens of changes, including the new Medicaid and Obamacare restrictions mentioned earlier.
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