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conventicle

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as in house

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The country's upper house of parliament voted last month to require UBS to hold 90% of Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) capital, or about $16 billion in extra shares, as collateral to support its foreign subsidiaries.

— Hugh Leask, CNBC, 28 Oct. 2026
The stranger’s dress had been stored in the family’s house for more than a decade.

— Allison Kiehl, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026

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Plans call for an 82,000-square-foot, multistory temple, including a meetinghouse and an accompanying ancillary building.

— Scott McIntosh, Idaho Statesman, 26 May 2026
Four people died in a shooting at a meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Michigan last September.

— Victoria Hoffmann, Christian Science Monitor, 23 May 2026

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At an event held at a West Sacramento wedding banquet hall earlier this month, Hilton tore into his rival.

— Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 28 Oct. 2026
The number of empty seats in the conference hall this week will help observers gauge how widespread Xi's purges have been.

— KANIS LEUNG, Arkansas Online, 27 Oct. 2026

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And the scant records around the outrageous boondoggle that poured more than $1 billion into a hellhole immigrant-detention camp in the Everglades point to him as the key engineer.

— Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2026
May and Spoelstra developed a friendship during May’s time in Boca Raton, with the Heat holding several training camps at FAU while May was coaching there.

— Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 27 Oct. 2026

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