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“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
But analysts at JPMorgan Chase wrote in a note last week that current market valuations for commercial insurers and, to a lesser extent, reinsurers, reflect “returns which are not necessarily sustainable.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Pluto got demoted from planet to dwarf planet, but we’d never treat each other as something lesser.
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
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