historic
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Another striker seeking a historic second boot is Kane.
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026
Mullin said the agency suffered a blow to morale because of the historic 76-day shutdown of ICE and CBP after a congressional stalemate over funding.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026
“That’s a genuinely historic pace,” said Jim Reid, global head of macro and thematic research at Deutsche Bank, in an emailed note Tuesday.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026
In response to the 2014 epidemic, the U.S. led a historic international public-health mobilization.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
There is no question that the historic civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s owed its existence to the summer of 1919, when organized black resistance to white abuse first became a reality.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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