individual
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The press coverage then identified the crew but not the dead Mexican workers, whose individual stories were finally told 70 years later in Tim Z. Hernandez’s book “All They Will Call You.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
"It's been fantastic to see Sam sharing the importance of that, he's a phenomenal individual for telling his story."
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
"The individual loses out, the family is torn apart, and society pays the price for this," he told AFP.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
The more important innovation was moving beyond individual projects to change the market conditions for alternative supply chains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
I open each of our individual text threads, but we hardly use those.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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Many of these names were already known to be in the files, and we should be clear that there is no explicit evidence that those individuals have committed crimes.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
All land that tourist development happens on belongs, in some way, to someone: the state, indigenous people, or individuals.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
These occur when an individual gains a beneficial mutation that gives it an advantage over closely related individuals, allowing its descendants to become dominant.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
“But it’s hard to say top to bottom that the collection of individuals is not very special.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
In any case thousands of individuals remained, most of them constellated in urban areas where they could physically see one another, take heart at their mutual presence.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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Herbert Hoover on "Rugged Individualism" (1928)
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