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given

[giv-uhn] / ˈgɪv ən /


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College administrators also wondered if it wouldn’t be better to have a women’s soccer team, given the demographics of the San Fernando Valley.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026

Those are given to players who have been out for six months or more.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Unveiling the Roadster with out-of-this-world technology reiterated that Musk has given up designing cars for regular people to drive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

The Angelus prayer is typically given by the pope from the Apostolic Palace overlooking St Peter's Square.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

After less than a year as assistant to a minister in Uithuizen, he had been given a church of his own in Brabant, the beautiful rural southern part of Holland.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

His thinking begins instead with three separate givens: God, world, human being.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

They call each other wives, because in 2025 same-sex marriage and parenting are givens, not distant fantasies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2025

But coach Bev Priestman suggested that growing parity means there are no givens.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 17, 2023

It is only in such moments, when the musical acknowledges its givens, that it comes to life.

From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2021

They were, like this new body she was growing into, givens.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez


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