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[eks] / ɛks /




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While speaking to The Cut in 2025, Ortega recalled going through belongings at the property when she discovered an old toothbrush that had belonged to an ex.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

And just like that first-season turnaround in a pub dart game, where Ted shows up Rebecca’s vituperative ex, Rupert, good old Coach Lasso leaps in to caramelize Alice’s insult into golden, heartwarming sunshine.

From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2026

Laura Overdeck arrived on the scene at one point and told cops she wanted her soon-to-be ex gone, the Post reported.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

Mother Susan told Panorama the CMS's efforts to chase her ex partner for money owed had been "a waste of everybody's time... a waste of everyone's money".

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

I know guys who are grossed-out by the idea of dating a friend’s ex.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

“Integrating Europe’s capital markets to better channel high household savings towards productive investments in the EU will be essential,” ex- European Central Bank President Mario Draghi concluded in his landmark 2024 report on continental competitiveness.

From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026

He established that Natalie's dog River was a puppy of her ex- boyfriend's dog and that the former couple had, for a time, lived together in her Silverwood Green home.

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026

The iHeartMedia release added that the ex- “GMA” personalities — who have since been replaced — will work together on additional iHeartPodcasts programming.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2023

An ex- commander of the rebel Free Syrian Army was also sanctioned.

From Reuters ● Mar. 28, 2023

Palmares was just the most visible example of the maroon communities that ex- isted in all the sugar lands.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson




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