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Noun
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Residuals and royalties exist for a reason.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
24 Feb. 2026 -
In 2018 Glencore stopped paying the royalties—estimated to be around $77,000 a day, or $28 million annually—that Gertler was entitled to under Congolese law.—
Nicolas Niarchos,
Vanity Fair,
20 Feb. 2026
Noun
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One of Ong’s observations in Orality and Literacy is about heavy and light characters in oral societies.—
Derek Thompson,
The Atlantic,
22 Feb. 2026
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The concept shared by these two works is the idea that colonial and authoritarian societies are held together through the presence of a scapegoat (The Barbarians) whose existence justifies the need for all the tools a society uses to build and maintain control.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Feb. 2026
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“Peerages.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peerages. Accessed 2 Mar. 2026.
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