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The aides decided the texts were a private matter and continued with their plans.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026
Amelia Knox, a moderator for the private Facebook group The Swiftie's Society, is hoping for a reunion between Swift and guests of The Graham Norton Show who starred in her recent Opalite music video.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
“He was friendly,” Churchill’s private secretary wrote, “but he never smiled: a change from the Ike of war days.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
Presumably there’s no $1.50 hot dog and soda, but the company has had success putting its private label on surgical gloves, baby blankets, and much else.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
I imagined them seething with jealousy at our private, mother-daughter birthday party.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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