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Gardner put the odds of passage of such a bill at less than 30%.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

For root canal treatment, for example, NHS treatment costs five times less than it does to go privately.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

As of Wednesday evening, the latest Orange County Registrar of Voters election results had her in second place — less than 1,000 votes away from Penaloza.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

At the individual level, you may extract much more or much less than you paid in, depending on accidents such as your life span.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

It’s not helping that I’m exhausted, that in the span of less than seventy-two hours I’ve gone from sleeping all day to sleeping barely at all.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse