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Zapatero, who served as prime minister from 2004 to 2011, was not originally closely aligned with Sanchez but has in recent years become one of his top defenders.

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

No expense was spared on the design of the home, which was originally built in 2005, with the listing calling special attention to the high-end materials used throughout.

From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026

She compared being on the Plancius, which was originally an oceanographic research vessel for the Royal Netherlands Navy, to staying at a Hampton Inn rather than a Marriott.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

While the utility originally touted the project as helping to “integrate more clean energy,” that language has largely disappeared from its public materials.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2026

The diagrams that originally accompanied Vitruvius’s text were in any case evidently few in number and extremely rudimentary.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton