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Scotland offers very few answers, but the questions tend to be wonderful.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026
"They have their own party and they tend to come a little bit later on."
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
But consumer staples tend to fare relatively well when the economy slows, as people continue to shop for items like soap, toothpaste and shampoo.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026
Historians of Rome tend to divide the emperors between the skillful and the inept, the good and the bad.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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