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The most prominent advocacy group to emerge from #MeToo, Time’s Up, shuttered years later amid internal discord and accusations of conflicts of interest.
From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026
In September, Beijing’s Tsinghua University poached Su Fei, one of Intel’s leading chip architects, and Liu Jun, a prominent statistician and data scientist at Harvard University.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026
Naindeep Singh, executive director of the Jakara Movement, a prominent Sikh advocacy group based in California, described transnational extortion gangs as being active in the state for some time.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026
Lee was voted the "most prominent contemporary Korean Writer" in 2023 by one of the country's largest book retailers after publishing her subversive debut novel, In The Age of Filiarchy.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026
These chords are also available in the key of C major, of course, but they typically are not given such a prominent place.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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