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Only the façade of the building at the corner of Gordon Street and Union Street was left standing after the fire in March.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
Saglimbene also thinks SpaceX’s bid for mom-and-pop investors will spill over into the Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs if SpaceX gets a standing ovation.
From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026
Those who were standing comprised the capacity audience, their cheers deafening.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
We found across a large sample of competing schools that the correlation between entrance-exam scores and graduation rates was more than double that for any other admission requirement, including high-school GPAs and class standing.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
At lunch one day, looking through the thin curtain, I thought I saw a figure standing just outside in the alley.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Vocabulary of the Summer Olympics
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Civilizations and Peoples of the Fertile Crescent, Lessons 3–4
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