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By the time the 57-year-old reappeared, his family had already begun funeral rites for him.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Councilmember Nithya Raman have only begun to wage their Nov. 3 runoff campaigns, but they’re already trading sharp jabs about each other and their records.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

By ten years in, The Fellowship itself had begun donating to the schools, tax records show.

From Salon • Jun. 9, 2026

The stock has already begun to rebound, closing up 3.8% on Monday and extending those gains into Tuesday.

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

He would have begun calculating how many trees it had taken to build them.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson