personal
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Xi’s health carries weight far beyond his personal well-being.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
In one day all items were sold for a combined total of £2.5m, including rare instruments, handwritten lyrics, stage items, and personal memorabilia.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
The palace said Charles had worked to acknowledge "the wrongs of the past" and "right inequalities that endure", and on this trip would "renew his personal, wholehearted and continuing commitment to that process".
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
San Francisco 49ers owner and CEO Jed York has been suspended for six games and fined $500,000 for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy, the league announced Friday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Via the speakers, a feminine voice says, “Once again, this is a totally full flight. Please place personal items under your seat and use the first available overhead space for your larger carry-on.”
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Lee founded the online personals site missedyoula.com in May to fill what he saw as a niche left by Craigslist and to give people a space to submit missed connections truly based in romance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2021
As a result, sites like Craigslist removed their entire online personals sections.
From The Verge ● Oct. 17, 2019
“There were pages and pages of personals, mine was the only one to say wedding planner. I got lovely young couples who were having trouble planning their weddings.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2019
Emma Llansó of the Center for Democracy & Technology said Craigslist has already shut down its personals, missed connections and dating sections, many of which have long had innocent intents.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2018
The more junior typesetters leaded and shimmed the classifieds and personals and all the other advertisements that filled the inside pages.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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