ourselves
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"There are no police. Last night, we had to organise ourselves and take care of security," one resident told AFP, like others speaking on condition of anonymity because of uncertainty of the situation.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
Without taking an appropriate amount of risk, we’d be leaving ourselves vulnerable to falling short or having to scale back in retirement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
So we’ll always try to find ourselves at the beach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
"It's a shame that we have to force ourselves to remember what we've achieved. It's so hard to win this league and we did it twice in a row! You can't take that for granted."
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
There is not a dump or landfill to take our trash to and so we separate it— organic, inorganic—and deal with it ourselves.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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