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The national average asking rent was $10.10 a square foot in the third quarter, flat from the preceding three months and up 1.7% from the same period a year earlier, according to Cushman.

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She said Navalny repeatedly complained about pain in his leg during the two weeks preceding his death, but prison authorities only conducted basic medical checks.

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Those pundits — including Kirk himself in the moments preceding his killing — have falsely claimed that trans people are responsible for the majority of mass shootings.

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If you wind back seven years to 2018, England had won only one of the preceding half-dozen Six Nations.

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Root had managed a high score of 27 in his five preceding innings this season, with three single-figure scores, but opened the Rockets innings in combative mood.

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