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Shouting angrily, protesters demanded access to the UN compound where thousands of delegates from countries around the world are attending this year’s UN climate summit in the Amazon city of Belém, Brazil.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
12 Nov. 2025 -
By mid-2025, the two countries had opened discussions on defense and free trade, and Bangladesh joined China and Pakistan for a trilateral summit in June after restoring diplomatic ties with the latter.—
MUHIB RAHMAN,
Foreign Affairs,
12 Nov. 2025
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The seal texts often introduced the owners with their names, genealogies, gender, professions and hometowns.—
Serdar Yalçin,
The Conversation,
3 Nov. 2025
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In Episode 6 of the season, after hometowns' week, fitness professional Debbie, 65, was sent home with Peg, 62, a retired firefighter and bomb tech from Las Vegas, Nevada, and Cindy, 60, a retired biomedical engineer from Austin, Texas, now vying for the final rose.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA Today,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Old countries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/old%20countries. Accessed 17 Nov. 2025.
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