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“As you know, I’m not normally a closed book on this stuff,” Sean told me.

From Washington Post • Apr. 26, 2023

The closed book history of that World Cup quarter-final, an event most people will have watched once, 34 years ago, states that the game was pretty much even.

From The Guardian • Apr. 26, 2020

In a way, it was a good ending, in the fact that it wasn’t completely definitive or a closed book.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2020

But the past is not a closed book.

From BBC • Jul. 10, 2019

Dustfinger’s face was a closed book, and Meggie had the feeling that if anyone tried reading it he would rap their knuckles.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke




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