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Eventually, a selfie from Fred smiling at the game returned her to reality: the call, she realized, was an elaborate scam.
From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026
“It just jumps off the page in this complaint that, really, this is just an elaborate fee-harvesting scheme,” Pierce said.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026
The production by the film director Alberto Arvelo was not elaborate drama.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
As Chen De’an, head of excavation at the K1 and K2 pits, points out, walking into the elaborate complex that now surrounds the dig, “There was nothing here but fields.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
By 1796, he had begun to draft his last will and testament, in which he eventually made elaborate provisions to assure that all his slaves would be freed upon the death of his wife.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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