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"Everybody does still try to get along," says Maddy Bacher, 63, a Democrat originally from Connecticut.

From BBC • May 1, 2026

Andy Liao, a property developer originally from Chengdu, China who now lives in Sydney, told AFP he and his family had driven down after seeing the street on RedNote.

From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026

We tested what would happen if the couple had to spend $500 more per month, and then $1,000 more per month over three years, and then resumed spending $8,000 as they had originally planned.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026

Mantello opts for a 1948 draft of the script to discover what Miller may have originally intended before the play’s first director, Elia Kazan, brought his collaborative influence to bear.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026

We have seen that Roman lawyers regarded vestigia, which originally meant the tracks left by an animal, as a form of evidence.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton