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"If it were really serious, I think they would have shut everything down by now," one man, who did not provide his name, told AFP in the remote Siberian city of Irkutsk.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
The people who love me know by now not to text me in the fourth quarter of a close one.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
Tsang Kin-shing, a former member of the now-dissolved League of Social Democrats, said he hopes the court will impose a lenient sentence, noting that Wong has by now spent more than 2,000 days in prison.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
At the same time, Ash to me sometimes fell into that kind of “AI tone” we’re all pretty familiar with by now.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
I noticed then she hadn’t drunk anything again from her glass of water, and scolded her gently, which she was quite used to by now.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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