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It also noted scientific trials of other common, naturally-occurring vitamins that were found to increase – rather than decrease – the risk of cancer, although none of those vitamins are used in glutathione treatment.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Blazes are common in Congolese cities, which largely lack firefighting equipment, and are often caused by a lack of spacing between buildings and illegal connections to the power grid, specialists say.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
Globally, these kinds of blooms are increasingly common as human-caused emissions continue to warm the Earth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
These actions compelled Sukarno and others to make common cause with Japan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Regardless, it was common knowledge that you could find many of the Academy staff in the simulation rooms after hours, reliving their glory days over and over again.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
He’s been called a thief, a benefactor, a commoner, a lord, a killer and a hero.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
One compares her to baseball star Shohei Ohtani, another praises her as a "commoner prime minister".
From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026
LONDON—It was supposed to be the moment a shamed prince was reduced to humble commoner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
She may have been rich, but Katharine was still a commoner.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2025
As we have seen, eponymy in geography is very rare before the naming of America, and America remained an exception in being named after a commoner.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
"Melanoma, the most dangerous skin cancer, is now the fifth commonest cancer in the UK."
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
So-called hyperemesis gravidarum is the commonest cause of admission to hospital of women in the first three months of pregnancy.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 13, 2023
“When someone asks what new or exciting birds I have seen on my morning walk, I smile and answer with delight as I name the commonest birds,” she writes.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2022
Rampant, unchecked militarism, as historian Arnold Toynbee noted, "has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations."
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2022
One of the commonest forms of tree-blindness consists of a failure to look carefully at each branch of a coordination.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address (1801)
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