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UK media have reported that the probe concerns non-declared financial support from longtime Farage ally and convicted fraudster George Cottrell and his mother.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
He also worked on three of Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell's campaigns, and is considered a close ally of the former party leader.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Harris-Dawson is a close ally of Mayor Karen Bass, whom Raman is challenging for re-election.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Now, they have another powerfully ally with Blanche on board.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026
Gregor thought they would do what was best for their species, and the rats were probably the stronger ally.
From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins
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He said the United States hopes to deploy forces alongside its allies with "operational capability like you saw with the strikes on the drug boats" in the Caribbean and Pacific.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
Chan’s campaign and her allies saw it differently.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Fry and his allies have spent just about $1 million and Sanford’s campaign has spent about $640,000.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
The Times leads with reports that Burnham is "struggling" to convince one of his closest allies, Lord O'Neill of Gatley to join the government's advisory team.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Elizebeth and the FBI ought to have been natural allies.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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Darline Graham’s allied super PACs—as well as her campaign—have outspent her rivals.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
The original specimens of the sail-backed dinosaur Spinosaurus were destroyed in Munich by an allied bombing raid in 1944.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
El-Fasher was the army's last stronghold in the western region of Darfur until it fell to the RSF and allied Arab militias after 18 months last October.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
For two days, the world's biggest oil exporter Saudi Arabia has reported drone attacks targeting crude facilities that it blamed on Iraqi armed groups allied with Tehran.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
“New Ghis is an island, and a much smaller port than this. We would be closer, yes, but we could find ourselves stranded. And New Ghis has allied with the Yunkai’i.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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But the MEK was long considered a terrorist group by Washington and enjoys little support inside Iran, where it is reviled for allying with Saddam Hussein's Iraq during the devastating 1980-88 war.
From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026
Additionally, Brics enables India to advance its core foreign policy principle of strategic autonomy, whereby it aims to balance relations with a wide spectrum of geopolitical players, without formally allying with any of them.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2024
By the time the first Spanish missionaries arrived in the 14th century, at least seven different groups were trading, marrying, allying, and fighting with one another in a complex political network.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 3, 2024
With Navarro, Foster transforms Danvers into someone more brittle but not lacking in heart, a cornered creature vacillating between allying herself with what’s facing her or turning on it.
From Salon ● Jan. 14, 2024
But I didn’t want to hear any of it, and the wind, allying itself with me, threatened the chinaberry tree outside the back door.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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