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There are seven candidates standing in the Aberdeen South by-election.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
"We've got teams standing by, we've got lawyers standing by, very focused on that. We don't want to let anyone down, we don't want to let anything slip away, and we've seen nothing."
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
“We’ve got teams standing by, we’ve got lawyers standing by, very focused on that. We don’t want to let anyone down, we don’t want to let anything slip away, and we’ve seen nothing.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
We found across a large sample of competing schools that the correlation between entrance-exam scores and graduation rates was more than double that for any other admission requirement, including high-school GPAs and class standing.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
The bus lurched dreadfully as it started up but we were standing too close together to fall.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Vocabulary of the Summer Olympics
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Civilizations and Peoples of the Fertile Crescent, Lessons 3–4
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