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Participants with higher cultural engagement were also more likely to be women, have higher socioeconomic status, be employed, and already enjoy better overall health.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
Another, of a 63-year-old man who collapsed in November 2025, showed that he died from untreated sepsis, which the report said likely developed following poorly controlled diabetes, malnutrition and overall frailty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
The population will fall to 398.8 million people by 2100, an overall drop of 11.7 percent and a level that was last experienced in the 1970s.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
Beyond these few pockets of the industry though, the overall impact of the deal could be "incremental rather than transformational", according to trade experts.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
I'd gotten the overall picture, but natural or not, there was no way I was going to take responsibility for this one.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
Wearing overalls and a cap emblazoned with "Billionaire's Boys Club", he expresses profound regret over the seven years he has worked as a goon.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
His hands were bound with plastic cable ties and he was wearing orange overalls and a black face mask.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026
Domingo arrives in the club’s lush courtyard garden sporting an olive-colored quilted Moncler padded shirt jacket over black bib Carhartt overalls and a black Valentino T-shirt, with a red neckerchief.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
Far below the cabin, hundreds of workers in overalls, helmets and protective goggles are busy at work.
From Barron's ● Mar. 7, 2026
An old man with a sun-weathered straw hat and faded overalls unbent himself from his chores in the garden to nod our way as we walked up to him.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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