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"After sunset is a lot more comfortable," Victor Li, 52, told AFP as he toured the arena and the underground passages where animals and gladiators were once held.

From Barron's Aug. 14, 2026

He claimed on Substack that he had put Arday's work through a plagiarism detection software, which found that "many passages are lifted with minimal editing, sometimes retaining copy-editing mistakes from the original source".

From BBC Aug. 1, 2026

For a creative outlet, he turns to it, altering passages with bits of charcoal to make poetry.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

This well-known section lists the Greek forces preparing for the Trojan War and is considered one of the best-known passages in Western literature.

From Science Daily Jul. 15, 2026

The passages were sloping steeper and steeper downhill now.

From "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl



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