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So far, 2025 has been a period of relative economic sunshine for the RBA, which has welcomed the combination of lower inflation, recovering economic growth and low unemployment.

Leonora's relative was just 19 years old, and nine months pregnant, when she was killed, her body dumped on the side of a highway near Cape Town in 2020.

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As a child, I remember Prince Andrew only from photographs in the Illustrated London News or Country Life—magazines that relatives in England sent to my immigrant parents in America.

But it took only 18 months of talking to AI to plunge me into relative isolation.

Spacetime provides a powerful description of how events happen: how they are ordered relative to one another, how sequences of events are measured to unfold and how lengths are measured in different reference frames.

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

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