entered
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The 34-year-old from Kuwait had arrived in the UK on a small boat 16 days earlier, having first entered country illegally four years earlier.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Speaking on Monday at the Energy Intelligence Forum in London, Nasser said the world entered the crisis with almost 10 billion barrels of oil stocks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Government lawyers pointed to a provision of the 1996 immigration law that said people who entered the country illegally “shall be detained.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
His base case is that, since March 2020, G-7 bonds “have entered a structural bear market after a 39-year bull market.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
I turn toward his door, which I don’t have to exit through because I never really entered, and I think our conversation is over.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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