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“They came to raid the cattle.  They seemed to be allied to the government,” she tells me. 

From Salon • Oct. 24, 2016

That craftmanship must be allied to innate gifts in pattern recognition, says Quentin Luke, a botanist affiliated with the East African Herbarium in Nairobi.

From Nature • Apr. 25, 2012

"Obviously, it has to be allied to great products and a great experience, and Apple has nurtured that."

From Reuters • May 9, 2011

To help make this happen, they'd "create a fake insider persona and generate communications" with Change to Win, a labour group the firm theorised might be allied to Chamber Watch.

From The Guardian • Feb. 16, 2011

It seems in its properties to be allied to the chaotic animals.

From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William




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