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England have a poor record in floodlit Tests, having won only two of their previous seven, including three defeats in Australia.

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“Architecture is a cultural act,” Mr. Stern liked to say, and our architectural culture is poorer without him.

Honduras, one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere, has long been a source of U.S.-bound migrants fleeing endemic violence and unemployment.

His uncertain future has been widely cited as a factor for his poor form.

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Dubbed Peru's first poor president, Castillo, a former trade unionist and rural schoolteacher, won power in 2021 on a wave of frustration with conventional politics.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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