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as in with
using the means or agency of contacted her via telephone

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Recent Examples of via The Democrats continue to insist on health care priorities, including an extension of expiring tax credits for millions of Americans who get health insurance via the Affordable Care Act. Kendall Wright, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2025 There’s something rare about Swain, who is a young brainiac, but one who has built his business the old-fashioned, pre-quant-trading and Excel models Wall Street way, via charm offensives that weave webs of tight relationships few rivals can match. Shawn Tully, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2025 Choke Enough arrived in February via True Panther. Walden Green, Pitchfork, 31 Oct. 2025 To ensure safety, track marshals can reduce the speed or stop karts at any time via remote control. Kansas City Star, 31 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for via
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  • Razer was founded by Tan and Robert Krakoff in 2005, and the company became known for the Boomslang, a mouse — named after a deadly snake — designed specifically for gaming.
    Lucy Handley, CNBC, 1 Nov. 2025
  • The Shenzhou-21 crew were also joined by four black mice, the first small mammals to be taken to the Chinese space station.
    Reuters, CNN Money, 1 Nov. 2025
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  • The Queen of All Hallows' Eve — who not only throws an all-out shindig for her famous friends but also notoriously goes for broke with her costumes, too — spent all day posting hints about this year's look ahead of the big reveal.
    Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Nov. 2025
  • In 2023 Atlas Merchant Capital, a combined hedge and PE fund headed by former Barclays CEO Bob Diamond, worked with Houlihan as its advisor to MarshBerry, in a significant fund investment for that leading platform in the insurance brokerage space.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2025
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  • The organization’s Green Heart Project, which studies the impact of better air quality on heart disease through urban greening, has found that increasing the number of trees and shrubs in an area can create lower levels of a blood marker associated with inflammation.
    Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 26 Oct. 2025
  • After struggling to get pregnant again, the couple decided to expand their family through surrogacy.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 26 Oct. 2025
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  • Swain and the Houlihan Lokey team view the area, still in its infancy, as a huge field for lucrative fundraising and investment-banking business.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2025
  • Biannual launches have become the norm for the Shenzhou program, which has in the past year reached new milestones with the deployment of Chinese astronauts born in the 1990s, a world-record spacewalk, and plans to train and send the first foreign astronaut, from Pakistan, to Tiangong next year.
    Reuters, CNN Money, 1 Nov. 2025

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