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In the intervening years, its ranks have repeatedly been thinned by Israeli assassinations of its top leaders, dating back to its earliest days.

“So he thinks, as the Russian ranks are thinned out by Ukraine, what a brilliant idea - why not let North Koreans do some of the fighting?”

The British national treasure made no conscious decision to stop theater but thinned out her commitments after her breast cancer diagnosis.

More than 90 minutes later, the crowd had thinned.

First, the team sliced off the antennae and thinned and polished the surrounding amber to ensure the clearest possible view of the appendage within.