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But because she had been removed from her biological parents at the age of seven months and later adopted, she had no way of accessing her family medical history.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
For Thales Miola, a lawyer at Instituto Preservar, "the costs of climate damage should not fall solely on society and on those who lost everything in the tragedy."
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026
It is awkward, at the very least, for the governments in both Berlin and Kyiv.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
The singer made what she called the "incredibly difficult" decision around two hours before the show at the 19,000-seater arena was due to start.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
It is raining on the day of Joey’s graduation, but the stage at Carville is decorated with flowers and two chaplains are on hand to deliver remarks.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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Sho sez at high class ats laid dahn all th’ brass, Just nah they’re beginnin ta craw; To mak up for th’ trouble they’re bahn to charge double, For bad speckulashun it law.
From Random Rhymes and Rambles by William Aldis Wright
In the Tsimshian, Kwakiutl, Nootka, Ntlakyapamuq, four Indian languages of British Columbia, the words for "father" when addressed, are respectively a'bo, ats, no'we, pap, and for "father" in other cases, nEgua'at, au'mp, nuwe'k'so, ska'tsa.
From The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day by Alexander F. Chamberlain
Men waved their ats and umbrellas, ladies, of whom there were many hundreds present, waved their handkerchiefs, and men, strangers to each other, shook hands with the fervency of brotherhood.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political by Robert Green Ingersoll
Pronouns: I, absolute, ut´za; copulative, prefixed to a verb, ats; suffixed to do., sun, sen, sin.
From Alphabetical Vocabularies of the Clallum and Lummi by George Gibbs
The little children scattered calico flowers on their path, the snowy-aired old men with red faces and rinkles took off their brown paper ats to slewt the noble Marcus.
From Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray
But she also did it on Twitter and @ed Powers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2019
You’ll be able to search for files you have stored in the cloud by @ing them.
From The Verge ● May 18, 2022
The system of followers, @ing and threading encourages sprawling conversations to develop from initial tweets, favouring constant interaction.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 23, 2019
Relieve yourself of this outrageous expectation, and stop @ing famous people who don’t know you if it’s going to get you all steamed up when they continue living their lives without you in it.
From Slate ● May 2, 2016