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The later memoir also contains admissions that make Byfield appear less conventionally heroic.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026

“Girls Like Girls” may be conventionally imagined, but there’s an admirable focus on unadorned warmth in Kiyoko’s storytelling: She likes her girls and cares enough to want us to like them, too.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

China's capacity to strike Australia would grow over the next decade as "the DF-27 intermediate-range ballistic missile, and potentially a conventionally armed intercontinental ballistic missile, grow in service numbers", it said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026

And although he wasn’t conventionally big or fast, he turned into a bruiser who used his low center of gravity—and a certain inherited family gift—to shed defenders half a foot taller than he was.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

He began conventionally, remarking on how fine it was that we were continuing a tradition that had been going on for as long as anyone could remember.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela


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