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stand up against





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I just wanted one boy to stand up against the other mean boys.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026

"For me," she says, "the crown was always secondary. The more important thing was to encourage women to stand up against injustice, to speak up for what's right,"

From BBC • Oct. 14, 2025

In Babb’s novel, women stand up against the atrocities they are faced with, and they make it known that they work as hard as men.

From Salon • Oct. 15, 2024

But Ali vowed that he wouldn’t be intimidated and urged people to come together to stand up against racism.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 29, 2024

We would stand up against it, would we not?

From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart




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