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He began knocking her front door, and it felt like quite a while without an answer.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
The University of Virginia began building a position in SpaceX in 2020 after looking through its managers’ holdings and discovering it had almost no SpaceX, said people familiar with the matter.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
Pulte and his wife began supporting it in the early 1990s.
From Salon • Jun. 9, 2026
"We saw walls collapsing, the floors opening up. And then water and mud began spurting up from underneath the flooring."
From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026
But as the days passed I began to discover a subtle danger.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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