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"It is precisely because France stands shoulder to shoulder with the Iranian people, supporting their artists, scientists and researchers, that two French diplomats were scandalously and deliberately attacked on 19 July," Barrot said on Tuesday.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

Levant famously did a number of television interviews with Jack Paar when Levant talked openly and perhaps a bit scandalously about his battles with depression and mental illness.

From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2023

One is that a scandalously high percentage of Americans are “unbanked” — lacking access to bank savings and checking accounts and to bank credit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2021

Risks: Burning bunker fuel and emitting huge amounts of greenhouse gases, discharging waste in port communities, interfering with marine life, scandalously low worker wages and tax evasion via “flags of convenience.”

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 23, 2021

The arrival of the new priest, scandalously young and bringing all the old ladies to mass several times a day.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman


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