chapters
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The first four chapters set the story up like a novel, building the characters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
The novelist had decided to lop off the manuscript’s opening chapters before publication.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
For administrations, this creates a thorny situation in which fraternity chapters remain associated with the universities—or at least, in physical proximity with them, and enrolling their students—even if they are not sanctioned by them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Describing Ferris as a best-selling author and a "former notorious criminal", he wrote: "News of his death will come as a shock to many who knew him throughout the different chapters of his life."
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
As you know from previous chapters, Indigenous peoples had highly organized societies and systems of governance.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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