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That Cena and André are so good together is all the more striking in a movie that affords them such infrequent overlap.
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Is the use case too simple or infrequent to justify the overhead?
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Steward said the church has around 50 members, although many others in the area stop by for the occasional service.
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South winds increase to 15-25 mph with occasional gusts over 30 mph.
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That would explain the intermittent touring stints in decades since.
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In just over a month, the company submitted claims for 78,663 items, mostly intermittent urinary catheters.
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Each one grew up in a home that required her to curry favor with volatile and inconstant parents—a menacing father figure, a recessive and enabling mother—and each found a fragile safety in her caretakers’ occasional good will.
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The self is a shifting, inconstant phenomenon, brain and body ever transforming in time and space, with no clear delineation between what is self and what is other.
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“Nonce.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonce. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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