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As of early Thursday afternoon, this year had already brought the fourth-wettest Christmas Eve and Christmas Day to the region since record-keeping began in 1877, according to another National Weather Service update.
From Los Angeles Times
The prospect of losing access to psychiatric medications he had taken for decades began to affect his business and family life.
The latest releases began early on Christmas Day, according to the Committee for the Freedom of Political Prisoners, an advocacy group made up of rights activists and relatives of political prisoners.
From Barron's
He began serving the jail term two years later after losing all his appeals.
From Barron's
But in the powerless dusk, as the sun slipped behind the Rockies, the cottage we had rented began to light up with candles—short, tall, big, small, whatever we could find.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.