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Outside court, Saffrine Duggan said her husband - who is being held in a maximum security prison - is "an ordinary Australian going about his business who broke no Australian law".
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
Fans will be automatically rolled over into future lotteries until they’ve reached the maximum 12 general tickets.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026
We learn that “rolling a machine” occurs when a player exceeds the maximum score the display’s digits can show—which was usually 999,999—after which it rolls over to zero.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
For example, the state and local tax, or SALT, deduction grew to a maximum of $40,000, four times its previous size, under the new law.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026
Yet it was at that moment of maximum affluence that the Roman political order collapsed into a series of deadly civil wars.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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Academic Vocabulary: Core Tier 2 Words, List 2
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Academic Vocabulary Toolkit 1, Words 61-70
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