as in to work (at)
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Swiping through the rest of the personal snapshots, the sisters are seen over the years enjoying ice cream cones on a New York City stoop, hugging, sharing a swing, practicing ballet, and posing with their famous mother backstage at Cinderella on Broadway.
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This is also why training must be carefully engineered so as not to conflate practicing simple tasks with complex problem-solving.
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Combined with significant migration overseas, this has brought about a steep decline in India’s Parsi community.
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An image may resonate with deeper meanings (that’s what great directors can bring about), but the compression and displacement that make the simile devastating on the page have no cinematic equivalent.
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Sit, 54, and his girlfriend, Tingfeng Liu, 24, were convicted last week – Sit on multiple counts of felony animal cruelty and other charges related to the deaths of nearly a dozen dogs, and Liu on several charges related to her help in carrying out the cremations.
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And the last, and most complex, are the regional powers financing the fighting, middle-power actors like the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Iran spending huge sums to back insurgent groups while carrying out strategic military strikes in pursuit of resources and political power.
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In a premier pitching matchup, Twins ace Joe Ryan (5-4) also worked six innings.
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In contrast, defending champion Brazil had both the weight of history and the competition results in its favor, with ace forward Ronaldo Nazário in red-hot form.
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Hezbollah was not part of the talks, which resulted in several ceasefire agreements that were never implemented on the ground.
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The oil backdrop made last week’s earnings from FedEx and FedEx Freight particularly important because both companies spend a lot of money on fuel and had implemented surcharges to cover the recent spike.
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Effaced, our villages, carried off by endless war.
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One woman who seemingly had both legs wrapped up was carried off a vessel by several officers, the post shows.
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“Engage (in).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/engage%20%28in%29. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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