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All of this is the background for the teachers' pay wrangling, with the threat of a strike ballot on the horizon in the autumn.
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026
So while some of the show’s characters met untimely or tragic ends, Maddy came through the other side as someone more powerful: a Latina who didn’t fade into the background but, instead, commanded our attention.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026
The tariffs have largely been background music as investors weigh the artificial-intelligence build-out and inflation.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026
In the new study, he shifted attention to the background flow itself and how it interacts with external forces.
From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2026
There is no way to know if the artists were trying to accurately represent an enslaved man in the background of a painting of the great man Washington.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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Close Reading: The Art and Craft of Rhetorical Analysis (Chapter 2)
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