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While Blanche’s predecessors in the No. 2 spot kept lower profiles and managed the Justice Department’s day-to-day operations largely behind the scenes, he is often a vocal and visible attack dog.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

Sale have at least kept their season alive by making the quarter-finals but they face a tough assignment in the last eight.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

Irrigation runoff from farm fields kept it going.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

But she kept crashing into the same barriers.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2026

He kept looking back in the direction they’d come, as though he knew that was the way home but was too scared to chance another encounter with Gingersnipes.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman