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Every year, tens of thousands of birds glide over the rusting remains of one of the Mediterranean's largest saltworks, to rest in the rare paradise it left behind.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
Clichy added: "The guy who will come in behind Deschamps will find it hard. It won't be easy."
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
With the project now more than a year behind schedule, Seaholm said he has scaled it down to about 40,000 square feet to make it affordable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
They described students arriving on campus without the skills to keep up with their peers, and being too far behind to catch up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
His milky brown eyes, flecked with green, peer at me from behind his thick lashes.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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"It is the first moment that separates our heads from our behinds."
From Science Daily ● Mar. 23, 2024
Research published Thursday in the journal Science suggests they feed their hatchlings a milk-like substance too, but from their behinds.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2024
Nor is it necessarily true that older political leaders invariably hang on to their seats as if with what Orwell called prehensile behinds.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2023
If the AeroCollect works well, he won’t need to don masks and gloves and get permission to draw chickens’ blood and swab their behinds.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 5, 2023
You have spent an enormous amount of money retooling your furniture factory, and still more making sure that, say, the mesh on the Aeron doesn’t pinch the behinds of people who sit in it.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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