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"We need a proper contest with the best candidates on the field, and I'll be standing," Streeting said in a speech and question-and-answer session at a think tank event in London.
From Barron's • May 16, 2026
“And the event wasn’t supposed to be about you, really. But there you are, standing on a mound, the baseball in your hand, everybody wondering what’s going to happen next.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
The area's current MP, Josh Simons, has announced he is standing down to make way for Burnham.
From BBC • May 15, 2026
On Sunday, a friend took the couple through their vows as they were standing on a cobblestone ledge at the foot of a waterfall on the 121-year-old Ruskin property about an hour out of Nashville.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026
Tansy’d be standing smug in the front door, calling us cattle to the trough of knowledge.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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Vocabulary of the Summer Olympics
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Civilizations and Peoples of the Fertile Crescent, Lessons 3–4
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