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"We may also take some key microbes of interest and see if they can be given preventively as a probiotic. There is lots of exciting future work to come."

From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 2026

"I've waited 50 years for him to be given an absolute discharge. I've served the time, not him," she said.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

He has constantly maintained that when jurists interpret statutes, words are to be given the meaning that an ordinary English speaker would have understood them to possess when Congress enacted the statute.

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026

As beach season begins in earnest, so should beach-reading season be given its due.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

I am so excited to think that my pictures will be given to the stone carvers and they will carve them into the obelisk.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman




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