once
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Unable to recruit bodywork painters or panel beaters, the car firm hooked up with the local government to hire young migrants once they turn 18 and leave state care.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
The prospect of higher borrowing costs once again hurt tech firms, which tumbled on Wall Street, where the Nasdaq sank two percent and the S&P 500 shed almost as much.
From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026
The imbroglio has numerous echoes of Kushner’s experience late last year in Serbia, where he had hoped to build a Trump-branded hotel on a Belgrade site once bombed by North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
They withdrew these once the trial, in a military court, began.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
He’s not crazy about my staying after school; luckily, I convince him that I am, once again, fine.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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