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Linda Ervine - an Irish language activist who hails from a unionist background - said she did not recognise her native city during the Fleadh.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
The result is an environment where consumption is highly visible while production and financing remain in the background.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
For investors enthralled by soaring corporate profits, headlines about the painful consequences from climate change are largely just background noise, experts say.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
There’s some great interplay here between you and your background singers — really draws out the R&B in the band’s sound.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
With the ringed planet in the background, the glow of the ship leaving Sagan bends in an oval like a firefly, until the light is gone.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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Cambridge said his hiring would help address underrepresentation of people from disadvantaged backgrounds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
This led to a deeper look into other factors contributing to wrongful convictions, including prosecutorial misconduct and mistaken eyewitness identifications, especially those made by witnesses with different racial backgrounds from the suspects.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
She told AFP she hoped parliament would be a space "to open dialogue for all Syrians from all backgrounds".
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
The 2022 Ofcom survey recorded statistics of people who loudcast by ethnicity, and it found higher proportions of people from non-white backgrounds said they watched videos in public without headphones.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
This Nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
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