sacrifice
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Appeared in the May 1, 2026, print edition as 'Albany Demands a Climate Sacrifice'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
Sacrifice today in the interest of tomorrow, and tomorrow might not come until the spring.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 2024
And as a faculty member at the university, Elliott quickly found himself frustrated and, as he writes in his new book, “The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No,” “rattled.”
From Salon • Jun. 20, 2024
On Thursday, a man carries a sheep in an Egyptian market in the city of Giza in preparation for Eid al-Adha, the Feast of Sacrifice - a major Islamic holiday.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2024
As if it reads my mind, the word Sacrifice flashes across the Collective’s subliminal ceiling.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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