gain
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A struggle also remains for Jefferson-Hemings descendants to gain the right to be buried in the Jefferson graveyard.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
“Many paid the ultimate price for Black people to gain the right to vote,” Dennis Dahmer, one of Vernon Dahmer’s sons, told me.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
Second-year running back Jarquez Hunter broke off a run for a long gain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
McNish could not find time to write poetry while studying modern and medieval languages at the University of Cambridge, where she stayed on to gain a masters in economics.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Throughout 1915, the Allies launched a succession of attacks that cost thousands of lives and yielded little or no gain.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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