local
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Local authorities, “along with officers from the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office and California Highway Patrol, worked to evacuate the building,” Heefner said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026
Local coalitions of neighbors are springing up in the most rural towns and counties as quiet, nature-filled lands are being replaced with loud, energy intensive data centers.
From Salon • Jun. 12, 2026
Local officials said the windfall for teachers, funded by a portion of the parish’s sales tax, reflects an influx of economic activity that is helping to revitalize a slumping region.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
Local retail savers have more than filled the gap, many of them novice equity holders increasingly buying through leveraged instruments.
From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026
Local law prohibited the time-reversal faculty by which the dead returned to life; they had spelled it out to him during his sixteenth year.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
Vocabulary lists containing local
"The Civil Rights Movement"
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