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“We’re monitoring in real time any real living thing coming in contact with that building,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026

"I suppose I convinced myself that it was all right for the time being because his marriage was not a living thing."

From BBC • Oct. 3, 2025

Further, the disposal of pans poses significant dangers to the environment and, by extension, every living thing in it.

From Salon • Dec. 9, 2024

DNA and Cloning Every living thing has DNA – a special code that tells it how to grow.

From NewsForKids.net • Nov. 13, 2024

That was his way of telling every living thing in those Cherokee bottoms to look out, for a mighty hunter and a bluetick hound were on the prowl.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls




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