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"The Forest Temple has always been my favourite Zelda dungeon: a mysterious, haunted mansion in the deep woods, a lost work of man slowly being reclaimed by nature," he said.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026
“At some of the bigger schools, being on the executive board has become almost like a social status thing,” said Sagen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026
“It’s the same as being in a top sorority.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026
He said the council had been aware of the price structure being offered to traders by the new operator, Underbelly, when it won the contract to run the event.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026
Pause: to make sure it’s the right person being chased, not someone of slightly similar features.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
“Human beings have lived in space since the year 2000. It’s an oasis that we, as human beings, built.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
After a murder of crows kidnaps her little brother, a young girl ventures into an enchanted forest filled with talking animals and other magical beings, where a looming war will decide everyone's fate.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026
Stories involving miniature humanlike beings appear throughout folklore around the world.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
But at the bottom of this stack, it is still human beings in trenches who are holding the ground.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
In the Lucretian universe the gods are indifferent to human beings, and human beings are an accidental consequence of the random jostling together of atoms.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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