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Yes, you can bike in Los Angeles, as many Angelenos often do out of necessity.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

"Nobody's required to do it, but they do out of love for their culture, and that was really attractive to me."

From BBC Feb. 8, 2026

“Some people might find it surprising that these kinds of linguistic generalization tasks are really hard for systems like GPT-4 to do out of the box,” Solar-Lezama says.

From Scientific American Oct. 26, 2023

The embassy has been in lockdown for several weeks with sporadic protests around it raising pressure on Paris to bring back its envoy, something that Macron had stoically refused to do out of principle.

From Reuters Sep. 26, 2023

Some things, I guess, we do out of tradition, out of ritual, out of need.

From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben




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