fight
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The stories of Clark, Willingham and others brought institutional betrayal painfully close: the place where you hoped to learn, belong and flourish can become another place entirely, one where you must fight to be heard.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026
"If we have the desire and fight we had today, not a lot of things can stop us. We still need to keep improving, but today I could see moments."
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
By examining nearly half a million individual cancer cells, researchers identified genetic changes that could reveal new ways to fight one of the deadliest forms of cancer.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
“My God, this whole fight is unbearable,” said Paula Moraes, an administrative assistant from São Paulo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
No-one can fight this bear, his father had said.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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In the most expensive ballot measure fights in California history, $463 million was spent on two gambling proposals 2022.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
Graham’s office later boasted that the work would lead to new technology that would “ensure that our fleet is ready for the fights of the future.”
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
As a child at his church's daycare center, James Talarico would intervene to break up fights, according to the pastor who has known him since infancy.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
The former recruitment consultant had just four white-collar fights before turning professional in 2017.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
It reminds me of Mom starting fights in public.
From "Free Lunch" by Rex Ogle
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He credited a teacher who fought the attacker with giving him the chance to intervene without losing his own life.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
These custodians of the land see the bill as a violation of the right to self-determination for which they fought for centuries.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
Both my father and grandfather fought in World War II. During that particular war, the U.S. had more than 16 million men and women in uniform out of a population of about 132 million.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
He said residents fought hard to get the park built on the Boyle Heights side.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
In the last year of World War II, American and British forces had fought their way into Germany from the west.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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They had been fighting to keep the workings of AI systems visible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
When they were abducted, helicopters were deployed and multiple attempts were made to reach the location, but these efforts were hampered by fighting in the area, the Salvadoran armed forces said.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
“So the options for bailing out the financial sector, or fighting recession, could be much more constrained than during the global financial crisis.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026
Alaska is a state of 27 people who all spend their day in the woods fighting with bears.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2026
In January of the new year 1863, the fighting further intensified as Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing enslaved people in the Confederate states.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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