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“The Trump Administration, and President Donald J. Trump, should, therefore, be given the respect and dignity of acknowledgement.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
So easy access to cheap prescription drugs in China is perhaps not that surprising given that it produces the vast majority of the world's pharmaceutical ingredients.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
It’s timely given that AI agents demand ever-higher levels of inference as they run longer and focus on more complex tasks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Canada’s willingness to hold out for a better deal could work, they say, given how intertwined the two economies are.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Once, we’d teamed up to teach a group of Red Lake rez kids how to play Cherokee marbles out on the dock, and Trey had given me this look.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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
My criticism is not that these characterizations don’t ring true to me, but that they are givens enacted with such fidelity that they render the world static.
From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2022
He knows no more than they do about total reality—less, if anything: works with the same old clutter of atoms, the givens of his time and place and tongue.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
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