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Det Supt Ryan Chambers said the unit specialised in the most serious elements of criminality, targeting offenders and those in possession of firearms.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
The prolific novelist and short-story writer Joyce Carol Oates introduces readers to Julia, one half of a couple whose long marriage has come to contain strange, submerged, undiscussable elements in “The Disappearing.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
The project was funded by Croydon Council as a public asset, and a change in building regulations meant it "fought against five or six circumstantial elements beyond the normal challenges".
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
Samples from Chang'e-6 contain extremely low concentrations of rare earth elements and have lower thorium-to-samarium ratios, expressed as Th/Sm, than their Apollo counterparts.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
The mountain was still intermittently belching steam and ash, and the best record of what was going on inside the volcano was the elements that came spewing up, out the top.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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