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When comic creator Garth Ennis first conceived “The Boys” in 2004, blending the cult of celebrity with the high stakes of politics seemed merely like a dark thought experiment.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
And they merely represent the value of those future liabilities discounted to the present — in other words, the money we’d need to set aside today to meet all those future obligations.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026
Or is space-time — the manifold of all the events that happen throughout eternity — merely something that occurs?
From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026
Maybe L.A. voters took pity on visitors to their grungy city who are required to pay a surcharge merely to hail an Uber from Los Angeles International Airport.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026
Her hand-stitched Hawoo had not been intended as a howl at all but was merely her own way of writing “hello” so that the word would sound the way she liked to say it.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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