ancient
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Bisexuality is nothing new, as any scholar of ancient Greece knows.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 14, 2026
Brochu has spent 35 years studying ancient crocodilians.
From Science Daily • Jun. 13, 2026
Time didn’t diminish his creativity, Hockney explained to The Wall Street Journal in 2014, because “the joy and urge to draw is an ancient, 40,000-year-old impulse.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
In ancient civilizations as in ours, it was status made manifest.
From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026
“It was well hidden in the stone wall of an ancient house here in Toledo,” Mari Luz replies.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
Vocabulary lists containing ancient
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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It's Lit: Hanukkah Words
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"The People Could Fly," Vocabulary from the folk tale
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