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It’s difficult to imagine he meant that “gatekeeper” to be Trump, who had no official role in 2001.
From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026
But without sufficient support, training and organized enterprise data, the technology is often difficult to adopt.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 4, 2026
Instead, he wanted to give them a "sense of this world, which is a difficult world", but added that though things were hard the Senegalese were resilient.
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026
Though Arini finished 4% ahead that difficult year, he recruited Deutsche Bank trader Ardacan Celebi, another graduate of a French math school.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026
But she was difficult to watch because that big eye of hers always caught me with a cold stare that made me shiver.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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