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Under state law, any single gift — or multiple gifts from the same source that add up to $50 or more during the annual period — must be disclosed.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 2026

And then obviously I got that yellow flag, the single yellow in the last sector, but I did a hundred-metre lift, lost a huge amount of time and still, you know… I don't know.

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2026

No country that tiny—by area or population—had ever played a single knockout match in the tournament.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 27, 2026

Even more severely, it drove a more extreme form of isolation for solo workers: The likelihood of not seeing a single person all day, even in passing, jumped by nearly 25 percentage points.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 27, 2026

Leeuwenhoek took a single drop of water from a rain barrel and turned his microscope on it.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman