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Others ultimately need dental surgery under general anesthesia, which makes them completely unconscious during the procedure.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026
"All the bids we received were excellent and we are sure that the championships in your respective countries will be a huge success," said IWF general secretary Jose Quinones.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
After six years in the state Senate, Ford was elected in 2018 to the first of two terms as the state’s attorney general.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026
"We think it is unfair to pass that burden on to the general public, so we will propose a new financial model that is fair to both solar producers and consumers."
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026
Unfortunately, it seemed to have vanished in the general chaos of his room.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
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One new sleuth is Carter Church, a 27-year-old AI engineer who decrypted a 19th-century letter to one of Napoleon's generals.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
Foran said that at the time, the colonies that later became Canada relied on Great Britain and its Royal Navy for its defence, as well as indigenous peoples who served as generals in major battles.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Wednesday that the United States has slashed the number of its generals and admirals by 20 percent, in a move he said is aimed at "accountability."
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
By one account, he has blocked the advancement of more than 80 generals and admirals.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
Sitting with those magazines, it was as if he were studying the chess equivalent of Plutarch’s lives of the Roman generals or Vasari’s lives of the artists.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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