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Homemaker Southwest was previously given a grant of £5,000 and achieved financial and charitable gains for residents of £20,600 over a six-month period.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
The company now expects an adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization margin of 14.2% to 16%, compared with 14% to 16% previously.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
Eric Romo, SpaceX’s 13th employee and now COO of Impulse Space, previously told MarketWatch that the decision to join the company wasn’t “necessarily obvious,” noting that Musk was at the time best known for PayPal.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026
The findings provide the clearest evidence yet that the two regions have different temperatures and atmospheric compositions, confirming predictions that had previously existed only in theoretical models.
From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026
Evidently, Giordano has no word for ‘invention’ or ‘discovery’, so he relies on a paraphrase: ‘a new technique that never existed previously’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Academic Vocabulary Toolkit 1, Words 71-80
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: pre-
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