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“Jordan was the main person helping me on my visit,” Berry said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
Multiple factors caused the famine, including the potato blight that destroyed the main source of food, and the political and socioeconomic circumstances of British colonial rule.
From BBC • May 22, 2026
Believed to originate from North Africa, the roughly 230 primates are the main attraction in the British exclave of 30,000 people that borders southern Spain, according to the Gibraltar Ornithological and Natural History Society.
From Barron's • May 22, 2026
There are two main arguments against the 90-10 portfolio.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
She had somehow been knocked out of the main current and was either drifting aimlessly or was floating toward shore.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
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Common Core Grade 5, List 5
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