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Last week, the Mexican Senate confirmed President Claudia Sheinbaum’s nomination of Velasco as the new secretary of foreign relations, Mexico’s equivalent of secretary of State.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
Trial lawyers are doing the equivalent of lying down in the street to block her reforms.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
The planned 500MW facility to store renewable energy will be equivalent in size to more than 20 football pitches and is one of hundreds of similar projects in the pipeline across Scotland.
From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026
That is one of the highest readings in the history of the model, and nearly equivalent to how much these funds are estimated to have sold over the past month.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 11, 2026
The spitting incident, symbolically equivalent to burning the American flag, had apparently earned the government’s wrath.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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Unit 3: Compelling Evidence
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