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being

[bee-ing] / ˈbi ɪŋ /




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Alfozan, who was denied bail after being deemed a flight risk, currently faces wiretapping allegations for allegedly bugging a conference room.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

Younger audiophiles revived the medium from the dead starting in 2008 for many reasons, the simplest being that digital downloads don’t include eye-popping cover art.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026

Villa supporters provided constant reminders to the travelling fans of their side being "cheats", and the vitriol faced following the guilty verdict of the financial charges may be beginning to weigh on the players' minds.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

The findings indicate that Yuezhuornis belonged to an early branch of bird evolution rather than simply being a small predatory dinosaur with bird-like characteristics.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

I can picture us being Elders at a powwow, me still hearing about it.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

As human beings began to organize themselves into sedentary, agrarian societies, they formed mutualistic relationships with the wildcats that prevented vermin from decimating their grain stores.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

"I say shame on you for not caring about other human beings," Long said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

The answer, in the end, was by breaking his lifelong conditioning, contradicting one of the main qualifications of heroic worthiness established by a council of powerful beings most people aren’t even aware exists.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

"As human beings, we have this tendency to compare ourselves to others," said Phillippa Diedrichs, professor of psychology at the Centre for Appearance Research, UWE Bristol.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

The discovery of the New World had fatally undermined any claim that there are some things on which all human beings can agree—here were societies practising nudity and cannibalism.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton


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