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The resulting case, In re: Turner, helped end the practice of racialized child “apprenticeship” and shaped the meaning of the 13th and 14th amendments.
From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2026
To investigate further, the team re examined every fossil bone previously identified as belonging to geese.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
“We have received quite a lot of messages re Coachella, we are so gutted, guys,” Lunny continued in the post.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
Then Summers asked: “Am I thanking her or being sorry re my being married. I think the former.“
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
“I’d be happy to leave you alone, but you re the one who needs to leave, not me.”
From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway
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We begin in medias res as the unnamed author frets about his choice to begin at chapter 13 rather than the more traditional chapter 1.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
The law deems them res nullius, which literally means a thing belonging to nobody - so responsibility falls to individual landowners.
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2025
Nevertheless, if you’re exhausted with voiceover exposition, you’re probably also over in medias res openers, i.e. starting with a scene from the middle of the story before flashing back to the beginning.
From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2025
Another time, a family friend prepared birria de res, the beef stew we have eaten our entire lives but which has become ubiquitous in Southern California only in the past seven years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2023
Perhaps the deliverance from res angusta domi helped him to paint better.
From Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by J. E. (James Edmund) Vincent