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[oh-puhn] / ˈoʊ pən /










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The Sept. 7, 2025, video captures the car pulling into the parking garage behind two uniformed officers standing at the rear of a police SUV with its back open around 6:18 p.m.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

"Searches relating to the investigation remain ongoing and counter terrorism detectives are keeping an open mind to the motivation of the attack," it added.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

If he’s still standing at the end, even if Creed has busted his head open, “I’m gonna know for the first time in my life that I weren’t just another bum from the neighborhood.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Whether that has anything to do with the visibility provided by the Spurs is an open question.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

I open my window; there’s a cold wind in the night air, the kind of wind that chills you to the bone.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold




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