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as in to live
to have life
stories that begin with the familiar line "once upon a time there was a beautiful maiden"
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as in to happen
to take place
the party is next Saturday
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With fentanyl, there is only a short window of time to intervene and save a person’s life during an overdose.
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Moises Velasquez-Manoff Robert Petkoff Emma Kehlbeck Zak Mouton, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2025
There is a broken down vehicle on I-40/US-71 from 85th Street to 75th Street.
—Kansas City Star Bot, Kansas City Star, 4 Feb. 2025
The average team is now worth $72 million, up 6% from 2024, but there is a growing divide between MLS’ top franchises and the rest of the pack.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 4 Feb. 2025
There is a banner hanging in that stadium that only one team gets a year.
—Jourdan Rodrigue, The Athletic, 4 Feb. 2025
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California is a living laboratory for the observation that demography is destiny, first uttered by the 19th century French philosopher Auguste Comte.—
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What a shame the company putting it out could not, in the end, bring itself to live up to its own worthy message.—
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In an Instagram post Friday, Crow is shown standing on the street while her car is towed.—
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And where does the Idaho State Board of Education’s Graduate Medical Education Committee stand on the proposal?—
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Those returns would rank as the best post-pandemic stretch (2024 wound up at $8.7 billion, while 2023 reached $9.04 billion) though still down from before times, when North American ticket sales regularly climbed to $10.5 billion to $11 billion.—
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Respect has been earned and appreciated at Ontario Christian (26-1), ranked No. 1 in California and on a path toward becoming the Inland Empire’s girls’ version of the Chino Hills teams from the Ball brothers’ days nearly 10 years ago.—
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The shooting happened just before 11:30 p.m. at 3200 Willow Pass Road when a suspect armed with a shotgun entered the store and attempted to force an employee to open the store’s safe, according to the Concord Police Department.—
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Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 22, according to the Tribune’s archives.—
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The brain, desperate for visual input, starts hallucinating lights and shapes that don’t exist.—
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But many of these stones are from the age of the Vikings, about AD 800 to 1050, and few examples of early runes exist.—
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More than 92% of Catholic school teachers are lay teachers (not nuns, priests, brothers or other clergy).—
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Everybody is lying or telling half-truths the whole time in this show.—
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This places lion’s mane within the Hericiaceae family, a group of fungi where species often resemble one another, making identification difficult for foragers.—
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And: The Tribune places great emphasis on the integrity of government and of the private institutions and individuals who serve and lead society.—
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Man United currently sits 15th in the 20-team Premier League two-thirds of the way through the season, 31 points behind leading Liverpool.—
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The bigger screen sizes each sit on two flat, narrow feet that are dark gray metal.—
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“Be.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/be. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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