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These taxes rapidly grew as the U.S. increasingly projected military power overseas, and disasters like financial crashes and the Dust Bowl demanded that the federal government grow to prevent economic collapse and starvation.—
Reco McCambry,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025 -
The issue is particularly of concern, Holtzblatt said, in areas, like Washington, D.C., where 20% service fees are increasingly part of bills being handed to consumers.—
Susan Tompor,
Freep.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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The Padres on Sunday battled back little by little, got even in the top of the eighth inning, and then ran into the same old L.A. story.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Aug. 2025
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So little by little, the feelings, the emotions, are left aside to focus on the answers, the quest, action.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Aug. 2025
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“Hierarchically.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hierarchically. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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