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Recent Examples of out of According to the latest 2024 Transparency International report, the Americas average 42 out of 100 points on a scale where 100 is very transparent and zero is very corrupt. Sofía Benavides, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2025 Following the 2022 raid, the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a forfeiture motion for almost $150,000, claiming the church and its Bible seminary swindled hundreds of military members out of more than $22 million. Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 14 Sep. 2025 The tweak was intended to further incentivise kicking the ball into the field of play (thus making the kickoff a greater part of the game) rather than blasting it out of the back of the end zone and accepting a touchback. Mike Jones, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2025 Not like something out of Cheever, with caterers and valet parking and Brahmins standing around in dry trunks with Martinis in their hands. T. Coraghessan Boyle, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for out of
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  • The most notorious, in 1978, saw the late queen hide behind a bush in the gardens of Buckingham Palace to avoid Nicolae Ceaușescu, having already removed anything that the Romanian dictator could steal from his room following a warning from Giscard d'Estaing, the then French president.
    Ian King, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2025
  • This innovative installation may hold one of the keys to accelerating a transition away from fossil fuels that scientists say is necessary if the world is to avoid the worst effects of climate change.
    Jeff Young, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025

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