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Russia had largely given up on trying to break through Ukrainian lines with tank columns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

The watchdog's report also highlighted concerns about the level of rent being charged to non-working royals who had been given accommodation in three royal properties.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

Going into Nvidia’s earnings report later this month, Monaghan sees a buying opportunity given the stock has been battered.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

In the past few months, it has given the green light to commutations of sentences of life without parole so that they “can be eligible for a parole suitability hearing.”

From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2026

No order was given here and we drifted about aimlessly, listening we scarcely knew for what.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

His thinking begins instead with three separate givens: God, world, human being.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

Bolch: A few things have become givens about the Bruins under Chip Kelly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2023

But coach Bev Priestman suggested that growing parity means there are no givens.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 17, 2023

Things once viewed as inconceivable are now unavoidable; things once taken as givens are now in doubt.

From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2020

The givens, all I’d been taught, fell away like so many covers when you sit up in bed.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez