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survivor

noun as in leftover

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In a letter addressed to Congress, Epstein survivors and the family of Virginia Giuffre - a prominent Epstein accuser - called for US lawmakers to vote in favour of releasing the files.

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A Holocaust survivors' group and politicians had earlier called for German auction house Felzmann to cancel the sale in Neuss, which was reportedly scheduled for Monday.

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He said that survivors' "impressions of a show trial with no real outcome, with no-one being punished, was right".

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In what Mr. Hoyos calls “an amoral act of public policy,” Scipio massacred the townspeople of Ilugo for killing survivors of his father’s and uncle’s defeats who had sought refuge there five years earlier.

Meanwhile, some survivors have begun sharing their experiences - accounts of feeling dismissed, ignored, or re-traumatised by systems meant to protect them.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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