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The reality: Portland’s 2020 social justice protests, which resulted in hundreds of arrests and continued for months, turned sporadic by early 2021.

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The 2018 power-sharing agreement that ended the war has been fraught with challenges, as tensions persist and sporadic violence continues to erupt.

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Over the next few decades, sporadic attempts to shorten working hours continued.

Evidence previously suggested that early human tool use was sporadic: randomly developed and quickly forgotten.

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Newly acquired arms have helped the rebels capture a string of towns in the Kordofan region, and sporadic strikes have prevented the reopening of Khartoum airport.

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