plight
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As with most other episodes of the series, “The Plight Before Christmas” took about nine months to produce by Bento Box in Burbank and Yeson Entertainment in South Korea.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2023
Everything from Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” to Dav Pilkey’s “Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People” is being consigned to the metaphorical fire.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 6, 2022
Silenced in Iran: The Plight of Baha’i Prisoners of Conscience Roxana Saberi Five years after she was freed from Iranian prison Roxana Saberi calls for her fellow prisoners be released as prisoners of conscience.
From Newsweek • Jun. 4, 2013
John Cooper Clarke has a great choric cameo with a poem entitled Pity the Plight of Young Fellows.
From The Guardian • Jun. 7, 2012
Well, actually it’s a tale of how one woman, with an blind eye to stereotypes, had the eraser that took “National Spokesperson for the Plight of Black People” off my forehead.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
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