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“If that had been a bust, I don’t know what would have happened. We’d have been set back a decade or more in terms of developing the sport at the highest level.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
La Roux told An that West whispered to her, “I bet you think I just put women back about 10 years.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
“We’ve got to get back to scoring more goals,” Holland said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
Which role would tempt her back to acting?
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
At the terminal on the far end, signals are converted back into chemical messengers, called neurotransmitters, for the short voyage across the synapse to the dendrites of the next neuron.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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