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“I think the development community saw an opportunity to get rid of most of those regulations. And they’ve gotten rid of most of it,” Dantzler said.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026

Karsen MacDougall, a senior at High Point University in North Carolina, was feeling anxious when she still hadn’t gotten a job by February.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

“I’ve gotten away with my career for 50 years because I’m not mean. My specialty is praising things other people hate, not the other way around.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2026

The claim that the task force had met “once a month,” when in fact it had scarcely met, led me to contact Harris and ask where he’d gotten that misinformation.

From Salon • Apr. 20, 2026

The light had gotten brighter, seemed to pulse and flood back and forth, but I still could not see the source.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen