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Jojo was less than a year old – an infant clinging to his mother – when he was captured and sold.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026
The ground stop comes less than two weeks before the Thanksgiving holiday, the busiest travel moment of the year in the United States.
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026
Berkshire Hathaway has gone less than a year without Warren Buffett at the helm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
Last year, approximately one-half of people spent less than an hour checking their options, according to a survey from the Employee Benefit Research Institute.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026
Either Maggie hadn’t been forgiven, or she’d been forgotten; nationwide donations for her ongoing care amounted to less than ninety dollars.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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