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kind of thing



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America has done this kind of thing before.

From Barron's • Jul. 2, 2026

I’m old enough to remember when tobacco executives, and many others, told us lung cancer and the risks of smoking were also a sort of “no big deal” kind of thing.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 30, 2026

He’s a talker, but there is not much room for that kind of thing, in an informal way, in Europe.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2026

And any population-wide studies into this kind of thing are notoriously difficult to design.

From Slate • Jun. 18, 2026

The kind of thing you think before your mind has time to run it past your brain.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman




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