affair
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I’ve written about my on-again, off-again love affair with my own electric vehicle, from things I wish I had known before buying one to my experience taking one on a road trip.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
On Thursday, his former deputy Angela Rayner announced that UK tax authorities had "cleared" her of deliberate wrongdoing in a tax affair, opening the way for her to compete in a potential leadership race.
From Barron's • May 14, 2026
His visit was a highly-staged affair, featuring carefully curated images avidly watched by people worldwide, as they hadn’t had a window into China for over two decades.
From Salon • May 14, 2026
Investigators in Besançon are now looking into the affair to see if any laws were broken, while the university where Montaclair taught for 20 years has suspended him indefinitely.
From BBC • May 6, 2026
In 1798, he commissioned James Callender, a notorious scandalmonger who had recently broken the story on Hamilton’s adulterous affair with Maria Reynolds, to write a libelous attack on Adams.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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