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being

[bee-ing] / ˈbi ɪŋ /




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"It's so much resource to try and put something forward that it ends up not being worth our time, because everything gets appealed, flagged, removed," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

Thanks to Stupnikov, the Ukrainians knew exactly who was being sent where and when tanks would advance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

I write about Amiri Baraka’s time in Cuba, when he was earlier in his poetry journey — and his writing changed from being there.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

A lot of people fall back on these ideas about immigrant communities being all hard work and drudgery — but we come from a festive, dance-fueled culture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Most cases of leprosy today are found in Asia, Africa, and South America, with two-thirds of the cases being diagnosed in India.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

The answer, in the end, was by breaking his lifelong conditioning, contradicting one of the main qualifications of heroic worthiness established by a council of powerful beings most people aren’t even aware exists.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

"Why is it that human beings don't have the right to challenge these things?"

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

"Yes, football is our passion, but we are normal human beings as well and maybe that's something the world doesn't always see."

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Since the 1980s, psychologist and MIT professor Sherry Turkle has been warning that modern technology is scrambling our ability to live in the real world and feel empathy for fellow human beings.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026

The loans that were being made to actual human beings only grew crappier, but, bizarrely, the price of insuring them—the price of buying credit default swaps—fell.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis


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