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person

[pur-suhn] / ˈpɜr sən /


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The renter advantage also narrows significantly the longer a person waits to start investing — the sooner the better.

From MarketWatch Sep. 2, 2026

It’s so fun as a high school senior to know the person at your side has been your friend and teammate for years.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

The whistleblower account detailed a series of problems with development and testing of the new computer system, which the person said can take nine months to a year to debug.

From Salon Sep. 2, 2026

Modern plastic surgery is so sophisticated as to be undetectable, even when intended to make you look like a different person from the one you started out as.

From Slate Sep. 2, 2026

How do I make this police officer, a normal, regular person, understand that things aren’t the way Dad frames them?

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Flock’s data indicate their cameras helped locate more than 10,000 missing persons in 2025 alone, which averages about 27 people a day.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

In both cases, Bu had falsely claimed he had contacted the missing persons and then prematurely closed their cases without confirming their whereabouts and safety.

From BBC Sep. 1, 2026

A suicide prevention bill submitted by several NGOs to the National Assembly in 2024, seeking to protect the "rights of persons with suicidal behaviour", is yet to be passed.

From Barron's Sep. 1, 2026

The data, per the department, helped officers recover 259 stolen vehicles, locate four missing persons, and aided the investigations of around nine of the city’s 28 homicides in 2025.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

And yet persons here and there declined to migrate; that, even to those involved, constituted a perplexing irrationality.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick




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