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Though the latter has one of the best bridges of the year, its undeniably melancholic and macabre nature is what put it out of contention.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
This latter stance can breed an idleness that, as we’ve now seen, ensures it may not happen at all.
From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2026
The latter often has a gift tax attached.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
It isn’t lost on the filmmakers that the contrast between dancers and their audience—the former necessarily young, the latter increasingly older—is a phenomenon that poses a threat to all the classical arts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
But as it was a personal choice between learning cudgel and wrestling from Constance or quarter staff from Matthias, to a mouse they had opted for the latter.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
Vocabulary lists containing latter
"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant
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