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Both were soldiers who had gone on to provide unsurpassed political leadership of their respective countries, and both were possessed of exceptional physical and moral courage.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
These were just really decent people who wanted to make a change in their respective industries.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026
Usually it was your management record, and your relative success with the respective budgets you'd been given, that would seal the deal.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
Both stocks have fallen by double-digits from their respective all-time highs last month.
From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026
All the major European capitals—Berlin, London, Paris, Rome, Vienna—were metropolitan centers that gathered together the political, economic, and cultural energies of their respective populations in one place.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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