civil
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The department said its findings, announced Wednesday afternoon, were based on a six-month investigation by its Civil Rights Division.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
But in “Two Ships,” an engrossing intellectual history, David S. Reynolds sheds light on a cultural collision that shaped early America up to the Civil War and beyond.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
“It violates what the statute says as a matter of text and history, and just how it’s been understood since the Civil War basically.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
The Civil Guard said two people were identified through DNA samples taken from the seized clothing.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
I heard the turning mechanism weighs more than a ton, and it was made melted-down metal from cannons captured from the Confederacy during the Civil War.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
Vocabulary lists containing civil
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address" (1863)
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"Of Mice and Men"
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