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Lighthouse said its therapy centers primarily serve patients with acute autism, that it has no minimum required level of therapy, and that it refers about 10% of prospective patients—generally ones with lesser needs—elsewhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
“If I’m here to merely protect a record,” she said later, “then I’ll pick a lesser opponent.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Faded stars could scrape out a second act in B-movies and lesser studio offerings without losing the prestige of the silver screen.
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026
Policy wonks are not typically famous: If they are, that fame is restricted to a league of Beltway professionals—famous in the way that really good brain surgeons are famous to other, presumably lesser brain surgeons.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
The lesser rings were only essays in the craft before it was full-grown, and to the Elven-smiths they were but trifles — yet still to my mind dangerous for mortals.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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