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former

[fawr-mer] / ˈfɔr mər /


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From late 2020 through at least 2022, Wang worked with Yaoning “Mike” Sun, her former fiance, to run a website called U.S.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

Carrie Johnson, wife of the former prime minister Boris Johnson has met with the family.

From BBC • May 11, 2026

So it was until April 1990, when former President Richard Nixon wrote a letter to Deng Xiaoping making the case that it was time to “seize the moment” and make a “big play.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

It all stems from Gorsuch’s third book and his first for children, which was co-written with a former law clerk and released in early May ahead of the nation’s 250th birthday.

From Salon • May 11, 2026

These former collaborators were now in pitiful condition, turned out of homes and apartments, unable to find jobs, hooted at in the streets.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom




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