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The Sugarplum Fairy, after an unsought interregnum, is presiding over the Land of Sweets at the New York City Ballet.

From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2022

Someday, Portland’s anonymous vandals may confront in their own lives unsought circumstances that require an agonizing decision.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 13, 2020

No less than Eastwood’s films, “A Beautiful Day” is a work of intimate and tragic politics, of unsought heroism that’s cursed with the very fact of its necessity.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 21, 2019

Arthur’s Jeddah Diary series, an intimate portrait of young women in Saudi Arabia, is a prime example of this unsought advantage.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 30, 2017

“Guarded by sentries and high barriers from unsought contact with all beyond, great gangs of us, healthy, robust men, live and labor in a marvelous artificial world,” he wrote.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson


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