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He says they found another colleague standing on one of the turbines, apparently unhurt but vomiting - a sign of radiation sickness.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026
Thus, she has hypothesized, if logging companies were to leave some of the so-called mother trees standing, depleted forests would find it easier to regenerate.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Even for those still standing, these are anything but the good old days.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
Peltz Beckham ended the post writing, “I do not want to reconcile with my family. I’m not being controlled, I’m standing up for myself for the first time in my life.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
By five minutes before noon we were always back at the train station, standing at a point on the platform from which we had a good view of the tower of the Naval Observatory.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Vocabulary of the Summer Olympics
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Civilizations and Peoples of the Fertile Crescent, Lessons 3–4
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