short list
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Now, researchers have added another world to that short list.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
Ellison’s short list includes Tennessee, Texas and Georgia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Aside from an unlucky draw, there is a short list of reasons a prisoner ends up here.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
A short list of tools, reached for over and over again, until they start to feel less like equipment and more like extensions of your hands.
From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2026
It was a short list, but still I managed to mispronounce IBM and assign the wrong gender to both the floor waxer and the typewriter.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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