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[shawrt-lee] / ˈʃɔrt li /


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"I served you faithfully. I served all of you, and our homeland Serbia, honourably and honestly throughout my presidential term," Vucic told supporters gathered outside the presidential palace shortly before submitting his resignation.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

Denmark dominated early on and Mikkel Damsgaard fired against the post shortly after Isaksen had a goal disallowed for offside.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Such processes require enormous amounts of energy and normally occur only under extreme conditions, such as those created inside the Large Hadron Collider or those believed to have existed shortly after the Big Bang.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

“It’s a challenging space,” Brent Glass, who became director shortly after the blue-ribbon report in 2002, told ProPublica.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

These were, I shortly found, connected almost solely with the dusty nature of the job, and of the consequent thirst engendered in the operators.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker




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