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Fed officials have preferred to keep the balance-sheet program in the background.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 18, 2026
Faith, family, and national identity — long central themes — have moved from the background to the foreground.
From Salon • Apr. 18, 2026
In the 1960s Stephen Hawking demonstrated the Big Bang in theory, while Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson had detected the background radiation that proved decisive evidence of the event.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
Mount Shasta, seen in the background, was also noticeably less snowy a year later.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
In his conversations, he appears to be more a philosopher than someone with a medical and psychological background, quoting Hegel as much as Freud, Plato as much as Jung.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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Close Reading: The Art and Craft of Rhetorical Analysis (Chapter 2)
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