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In the wake of the cancelled Independence Day events, Sylva's house in Abuja was raided by investigators, and at the time his spokesman denied the wealthy politician's involvement in the alleged plot.
From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026
Prediction markets are so prone to abuse that the alleged behavior in this case feels much more like a feature than a bug.
From Slate • Apr. 24, 2026
The soldier left a trail of alleged transactions that made him easy to track down, noted Rajiv Sethi, a Barnard College economics professor who studies prediction markets.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
Part of the agreement stipulated that the alleged victim would never be pictured or mentioned in a dramatization of Jackson’s life.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026
Two years after the recording of ‘Strange Fruit’, Meeropol was summoned to appear before New York State’s Rapp-Coudert committee investigating alleged Communist infiltration of the state’s high schools.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 26–31
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