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The discoveries have caused widespread alarm in Ekurhuleni, particularly around Kempton Park, and come against the backdrop of longstanding concern about high levels of violence against women in South Africa.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Becerra recalled that during his 24 years in Congress there was widespread, bipartisan support for sending federal assistance to disaster areas, including areas devastated by hurricanes on the Eastern Seaboard or floods in the South.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
In recent years, a stream of DNA exonerations has shown how widespread false confessions really are.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
The climbing case counts also threaten the nation’s measles-elimination status, a designation the country earned more than two decades ago due to widespread vaccination efforts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Water-wheels were known to the ancient Greeks and Romans but were far from common; thanks to an early medieval proto-industrial Revolution, they quickly became widespread around the end of the first millennium CE.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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