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He Yafu, an independent demographer based in the southern city of Zhanjiang in Guangdong Province, said he believes the change in measurement helped to lower the main figure, although he thinks just as many young people are jobless.

In the paper I’m most proud of, I write about a Dust Bowl–era Black sharecropper in Alabama who is the main figure in a sprawling oral history and who talks about the Judeo-Christian notion of theodicy in ways that anticipate the arguments of late-20th-century African American theologians.

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He’s also been a main figure in Trump’s ongoing legal battles, both as an adviser and a participant.

But according to many in the party, not mentioning Trump — the main figure of the GOP who spent much of 2021 and 2022 campaigning for and against candidates, and giving endorsements from his Mar-a-Lago Club while promoting false claims of a stolen election — in the autopsy report produces an incomplete analysis at best.

The decision not to name the main figure in the case set off a week of uproar and speculation about his identity that led colleagues to publicly deny involvement.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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