status
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The department could not immediately be reached for comment on the status of those tests.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
In the Cornell backlash, he blamed "people who felt that the status quo was being threatened, people who didn't like the idea of women being treated equally, people who wanted to shut up women."
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026
Rudolph Randa, chief judge of a Wisconsin district court, said in 2007 that he would take senior status if and only if a successor was appointed before George W. Bush left office.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
Raman, a member of city council and Indian immigrant, ran on a platform of change and fixing the "broken status quo and the politicians who failed them over and over again".
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
As a former foreign minister now serving as secretary of state, Jefferson required no instruction on the international implications of Americas debtor status.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
The Social Security Administration did not respond to a request for comment, or to questions regarding why there was so much incomplete data or what about citizenship statuses were inaccurate.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
“This is probably going to put them in touch with lots of other Latinos of different migration statuses in a way that is not necessarily about competition, but much more about helping,” Mora said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Nearly four million U.S. households have mixed legal statuses, and income drops 48% with removal of unlawfully present members.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
But as Nelson delegated the task of investigating those voters’ statuses to local election officials, confusion took hold.
From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2026
His statuses didn’t provide much context about his life, only that he’d been a loner who preferred runs with his golden retriever Turbo instead of social outings with his classmates.
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
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