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away

[uh-wey] / əˈweɪ /




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Soccer — and, by extension, the United Bid — at a delicate time, with the vote to award the 2026 tournament just four months away.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2026

The team’s other match is just 280 miles away in Guadalajara.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

And yet, that narrow 1-0 win in Chaves in northern Portugal has never really faded away.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026

He’d force himself into the kitchen, cooking orders before he was shooed away.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2026

Half the world away from San Francisco in 1862, French surgeon Paul Broca in Paris announces a discovery that finally turns brain theory into brain science.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman




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