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"Instead, placodes emerge spontaneously from local interactions between cells and chemical signals."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026
The legislation follows complaints from local traders that foreign-owned businesses are encroaching on traditional retail markets, increasing competition and threatening livelihoods.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026
It remains legal on the federal level, though more than a dozen states and many local governments have banned it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
Observed and wrote a local version for the Grunion Gazette in Long Beach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026
Reverend Lyman Granger told his dear friend, Reverend Lemuel Clark, that three local sisters were helping him speak to his daughter, Harriet.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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At a packed town hall meeting Monday, residents demanded to know how a theft of this scale occurred—and why locals weren’t told of the incident until Friday, three days after a local election.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
With many Uruguayans opposed to footing the bill, organizers resorted to a raffle to help finance the visit here, offering locals the chance to win an apartment, trips to Rome and 10 pint-size hatchback cars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
He gave shout-outs to union locals at campaign events and has credited his father’s union construction job for giving his family of six access to healthcare while he was growing up in Sacramento.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
The two clergy agree that many locals view their respective communities as "a refuge" against life in an area with poverty rates far above the national average.
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026
While the British rested, a group of Washington locals, later described by Paul Jennings as “rabble,” took the opportunity to ransack the White House.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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