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You don’t give your respective ages, but women tend to live five years longer on average than men; a macabre data point worth considering.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026
None of the four No. 1 seeds have struggled much in their respective games this tournament.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
Usually it was your management record, and your relative success with the respective budgets you'd been given, that would seal the deal.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
Blue Owl said the credit income fund’s borrowers are doing well, growing their revenue and cash operating income at respective averages of 9% and 10%.
From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026
We broke up, Spoon and I going to our respective classes, Ema going . . . wherever it was she was going.
From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben
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