passage
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In 1996, he sharply criticized the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, which cut federal benefits for many legal immigrants.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2026
“We need a responsible neutral party like the Michigan Public Service Commission to review these projects based on facts, not fear or falsehoods,” she testified to state officials ahead of the bill’s passage.
From Salon • Apr. 27, 2026
Most paleontology research today still focuses on searching for traces of original organic material in fossils, but DNA has not survived the passage of time.
From Science Daily • Apr. 26, 2026
Washington imposed the restrictions after Iran effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz, a passage where a fifth of the world’s oil once transited.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 2026
Penelope flipped the pages, looking for some passage that both she and the children might find sufficiently distracting to make them forget that the admiral had not yet returned.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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