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I have a name, a body of work, but there are people who are jobless, stripped of their pensions and left in a state of utter abandonment.
From Barron's • May 21, 2026
If the U.S. healthcare system is dysfunctional, then the long-term-care situation is a complete and utter disaster.
From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026
"I'm asking you to think, for just one minute, of the utter devastation that could have resulted," he said.
From BBC • May 9, 2026
But because “Marjorie Morningstar” wasn’t “Madame Bovary,” because “Travels With Charley” wasn’t “Anna Karenina,” Macdonald worked himself into a fit over the utter worthlessness of middlebrow fiction.
From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026
Fearful that ongoing war would mean utter destruction of their nation, a faction of Shawnee accepted a peace agreement that meant giving up some of their autonomy and the territory they used as hunting grounds.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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