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In a series of three trades spanning mere hours on Monday, Gladstone completely remade his team’s defense with a new safety and two defensive linemen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
During a four-week trial, Brand faced allegations from six women spanning the decade between 1999 and 2009.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
The district, spanning some 900 square miles, is the largest in the country, and the majority of its 200,000 students are low-income.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
That ancestor is estimated to have lived during the Early Miocene, an interval spanning roughly 23 million to 16 million years ago.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026
Tenzing was moving closely behind the other four, stepping exactly where they had stepped, when he broke through a thin veneer of snow spanning a deep crevasse.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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