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Maduro was replaced by his vice president, Delcy Rodriguez, who has largely cooperated with the United States despite her ideological background.
From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026
If those people passed a strict background check, they could stay and work legally in this country.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026
It added that the police were working to determine the attacker’s nationality and background.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
The second method looks at the early universe by studying the cosmic microwave background, the faint radiation left over from the Big Bang.
From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2026
For last year’s experiment, he had compared the background radiation around the mobile home with the background radiation in the Phoenix valley.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Close Reading: The Art and Craft of Rhetorical Analysis (Chapter 2)
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