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Sentencing Morris and Meenakshi, Judge Harbage said the pandemic was a time when "all of us had to make sacrifices and pull together for the good of society as a whole".
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Tokenization also expands overseas access to U.S. stocks, allowing anyone in the world to hold whole or fractional shares of blue-chip equities in the same digital wallet as their crypto assets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
It remains one of R.E.M.’s strongest compositions, an entire sonic landscape that morphs instantly into a whole other world.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
The WHO said Tuesday that its initial risk assessment, based on the information available, was moderate to low for the Irkutsk region, low for Russia as a whole and very low for Europe.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
But now that these things were taken away, the love seemed as whole as before.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Each composer has a specific lighting color, to give a sense of which fragments combine to make wholes.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2023
Food, trinkets and paper offerings are also extended to ancestors or deities, including wholes chickens, fruit, tea, sculptures, incense and candles.
From Fox News ● Jan. 27, 2022
Fragments force quick reading, ask for impressionistic understanding, and suggest parts rather than wholes.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
Saar hops, skips and jumps among media, extracting the best of each and creating wholes greater than the sum of their parts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2020
As wholes, or parts, with movement or just motionless figures, with special attention to the color spots or ignoring them, with lots of ideas or just a few stereotyped responses.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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Geometry (Base List)
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