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"We take a firm line on ads that are likely to cause serious or widespread offence and these ads are a clear example of why that matters," she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
The California grower’s expansion into China ignited local competition and widespread intellectual-property theft.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
That distribution could suggest that such organs first evolved in specific localized areas before becoming more widespread across the skin in later crocodylomorph lineages.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
The court’s order meant it would quickly go into effect, creating widespread confusion among election officials.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026
Also widespread in Japan is the theory that the Japanese are descended from horse-riding Central Asian nomads who passed through Korea to conquer Japan in the 4th century A.D. but who were emphatically not Koreans.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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"The Civil Rights Movement"
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"Laws are not the only way to boost immunization”: an editorial from Nature
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