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Using her background in screenwriting, she pitched “Hands!” to the Elysian Theater and performed it for its Spaghetti Festival, designed to showcase new work, within three months.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
FlyDubai works in the background to offer cheap flights, often to the region’s more dangerous destinations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
In court documents, prosecutors said Rush had also lied about his educational and professional background before joining the CIA, including a false claim that he had been a US military pilot.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
That background gave her experience with many of the obstacles pregnant patients can encounter.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
The next room was dark and quiet, save the faint sound of a horse galloping in the background.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
That said, I think it’s too easy to draw a straight line between your respective backgrounds and your reactions to the $3 million.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
No one from any of the states asked us about our backgrounds or qualifications, though West Virginia did ask for proof of a high school diploma.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
Voters of several ages and backgrounds spoke to AFP in Riga, expressing their priorities in an election dominated by but not limited to security issues.
From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026
Experimenting, it seems, with high-contrast printing and an X-Acto knife in his bathroom darkroom, he reduced his figures to lonely shapes of solid black on solid-white backgrounds and vice versa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
It’s strange even by the standards of strange Renaissance backgrounds.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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Close Reading: The Art and Craft of Rhetorical Analysis (Chapter 2)
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