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The Enquirer also reached out to UC's Turning Point USA chapter but did not receive a response prior to publication.
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Grace Tucker, Cincinnati Enquirer, 25 Sep. 2025
Wix Learn More Information about Wix has been collected independently by Select and has not been reviewed or provided by the issuer of the card prior to publication.
—Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2025
Desert Diamond Arena parking Desert Diamond Arena parking lots open one hour prior to the door time.
—Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 25 Sep. 2025
Even though it is now considered one of the best-looking sports cars of its era, the fourth Supra still received a facelift prior to the 1997 model year.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 25 Sep. 2025
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Grace Tucker, Cincinnati Enquirer, 25 Sep. 2025
Wix Learn More Information about Wix has been collected independently by Select and has not been reviewed or provided by the issuer of the card prior to publication.
—Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2025
Desert Diamond Arena parking Desert Diamond Arena parking lots open one hour prior to the door time.
—Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 25 Sep. 2025
Even though it is now considered one of the best-looking sports cars of its era, the fourth Supra still received a facelift prior to the 1997 model year.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 25 Sep. 2025
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Chichester City’s next match scheduled for this Saturday against Lewes has been postponed, while the Isthmian League said that, as a mark of respect, a minute’s silence will be observed before all other matches and all players will wear black armbands.—
Patrick Snell,
CNN Money,
26 Sep. 2025
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Related Stories The dawn of the iPhone in 2007 was really Year One for mobile gaming, although titles did exist before then, O’Brien told Jennifer Maas, Variety‘s senior business writer for TV and gaming.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
26 Sep. 2025
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Scott Cooper had offered me a movie previous to Deliver Me from Nowhere.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
31 July 2025
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Researchers tested this process, known as photothermal catalysis, in the laboratory using a simulant based on samples of lunar regolith returned to Earth by China's Chang'e 5 mission (the lunar samples are far too previous to destroy in such experiments, which is why a simulant is used instead).—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
17 July 2025
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Xi promised that within a decade, China will expand wind and solar power capacity to more than six times its 2020 level.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Sep. 2025
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Both capitals sit along the Skagerrak and Kattegat straits, home to busy shipping lanes which connect the North Sea to the Baltic Sea.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Prior to.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prior%20to. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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