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We heard that a lot during a week in Durán, and surrounding areas.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Pediatrician in southern Utah: A lot of parents are concerned about autism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
There's still a lot of positives to take.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
I explain that I trust these experts over someone without a lot of experience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
I make a decision then, as I walk past the bathroom and step out the door into the parking lot and the cold night.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
There are lots of parallels between these two stories: family members getting separated from loved ones, then turning to the courts, specifically to habeas corpus petitions, to claim that the separation is unlawful.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
So far, there’s little evidence it’s killing lots of jobs, something some leading technologists had warned.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
Eventually many took turns sharing what they’d witnessed — friends and acquaintances getting detained and immigration agents swarming parking lots, sometimes dozens at a time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
They are being offered as separate lots in Before The Smiths: The Morrissey Letters, which will be held at Dawsons Auctioneers on 26 August.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
Basic math, lots about seasonal planting, some carpentry skills, things like that.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
From the switch the ball is lotted through to Gomez, who again has a poor final touch and the ball reaches James.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2012
Bridges will be al lotted $700 million for repairs, while the remaining $600 million will be devoted to highway safety programs and miscellaneous road projects.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fortune, indeed, and benefits by Fate are lotted out: One country's blest with fertile fields, whilst others sterile be.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by Payne, John
I had laid on a certain plan day and night, kep’ it in my mind and lotted on it.
From Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife by Holley, Marietta
It chanced amongst the other people lotted, A man of thirty rather stout and hale, With resolution in his dark grey eye, Next Juan stood, till some might choose to buy.
From Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
We’ll do our best for you—but I ain’t lotting much on Latisan’s showing up again.
From Joan of Arc of the North Woods by Day, Holman
He has been lotting upon seeing you, maam.
From Cora and The Doctor or Revelations of A Physician's Wife by Leslie, Madeline
Vocabulary lists containing lot
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