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I first met Gerald at the end of 2024, after coming across a Cafe Royal booklet of some of his photographs at the Photographers’ Gallery in London.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

“And I kept coming across that more than anything else.”

From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026

“It’s not about garments coming across the border and putting a new label on it.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

She said officers continued to head westbound before coming across debris in the dual carriageway and finding a badly damaged Toyota on the nearside verge.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

As he was searching online, he kept coming across one name: Dr. David Strayer.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel


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