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The civil rights leader was born in 1941 in segregated Greenville, S.C., and rose to prominence alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s.

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That voter rebuke rankled Mr. Erdoğan, who rose to political prominence in that same Istanbul office.

As such, she entered office bearing great — and vastly unrealistic — expectations about her prominence and the public role she would play in the Biden administration.

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The issue gained prominence in June when a band called The Velvet Sundown suddenly went viral on Spotify, and only confirmed the following month that it was in fact AI-generated content.

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The documentary aired last year but came to prominence this month when a leaked internal BBC memo which raised concerns about the edit was published by the Telegraph newspaper.

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