independent
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Oyin Adedoyin: Say you want your child to become more financially independent.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
One wild-card spender in this campaign is retired businessman Bill Bloomfield, who has put $367,093 into an independent campaign on behalf of Melvoin.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
A report carried out by the UK government's independent immigration inspector last year found cases where adult migrants had been classified as children - and cases where child migrants had been wrongly classified as adults.
From BBC • May 28, 2026
“We believe the Board should conduct an independent investigation to evaluate whether Anthropic benefitted from any improper use of Figma’s confidential information.”
From Barron's • May 28, 2026
The mother and the father were two independent sides and the child was the third—the biological hypotenuse to the parents’ two lines.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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