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Manchester City have a better goal difference - and if they win their final two matches, that does mean Arsenal will have to beat Crystal Palace.

From BBC • May 18, 2026

Today, social media, aspirational culture and the sorting of the professional class into a handful of expensive cities mean the middle class compares itself constantly with those doing far better.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

The Court majority’s jurisprudence resembles the line in Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking Glass”: “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”

From Salon • May 18, 2026

I mean, I thought my world had just fell out from underneath me when my second daughter left.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

‘I mean, it could be a lynx, Or a wolverine.’

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver




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