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In search of a vacation spot for surfing with his family, Clint Tasset put down a $600,000 deposit last year on a $1.8 million lot in Los Cabos, Mexico, a place renowned for its coastline.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
Lemssouguer, a Moroccan-born mathematician who lives in a 400-year-old Tudor estate outside London and raises rare parrots, is renowned in the rough-and-tumble world of distressed-debt trading for placing bigger-than-usual bets that can move markets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
He was so renowned within baseball that the Dodgers, MLB, and the players’ union posted condolences.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
They were renowned for decades as bastions of the Israeli left.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
Pythagoras may have been an ancient New Age thinker, but he was a powerful orator, a renowned scholar, and a charismatic teacher.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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