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When, by the mid-1980s, commercial hunting and the destruction of wetlands brought nine of 10 major North American duck species into steep decline, a 1985 farm bill helped reverse that.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
Jim Desmond, a San Diego County supervisor and former commercial airline pilot, entered the race with Issa’s endorsement and quickly emerged as the leading Republican contender when Trump backed his campaign in April.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
"We can probably welcome some sort of tagging system like this, though it may favour the more commercial and successful artists already active rather than new independent artists."
From BBC • May 1, 2026
Between March 1 and April 24 this year, an average of 20 commercial vessels went round the Cape of Good Hope every day compared with six in the same period in 2023.
From Barron's • May 1, 2026
This mixture of simplicity and cunning, of superstition and commercial reasoning, aroused Van Helsing, who said:—
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
Vocabulary lists containing commercial
Material World: Shopping Lingo
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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East Asia - Middle School
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