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He added: "It is a serious human rights violation, and it is one more reason why two British citizens, with no other options left, are now starving themselves in protest."

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

Farmers have few options to deal with rising costs, and whatever they decide to do will have consequences for the quality and quantity of crops they produce.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

Even if the cancer cases prove to be unrelated to the drug, they might hurt investor interest, the company’s strategic options and commercial uptake for the drug, the analysts said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

Managers of seven Southern California water agencies have been studying options for building the pipelines and pump stations to transport the water on land if the technology pencils out.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

It set the precedents, established in palpable fact what the Constitution had only outlined in purposely ambiguous theory, thereby opening up and closing off options for all the history that followed.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis