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Joanne said she then saw someone ducking at the end of the bed and she ran to the bathroom and locked the door.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
During a wine grape strike in the Central Valley, Huerta and other UFW women once locked arms in a human blockade between the union’s male picketers and replacement workers wielding two-by-fours.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
Anthropic's costs, by contrast, are largely locked in.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
“We just got to do what we’ve got to do. We are locked in on winning Game 6 whether it’s 8 a.m., 10 p.m., midnight.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
Many nights after the door was locked and the shutters closed, I sat on in the flickering gaslight, poring over old inventories and wholesalers’ statements.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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