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"Some places were basically saying, 'We can't give you the job, you've not got good confidence, your eye contact's not good', stuff like that," she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
"In the marketplaces you basically only find pangolin scales, not the whole animals, which makes it hard to know which species are being hunted and where they are coming from," says Feijó.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
“It basically started in a residential neighborhood,” said Chris Buckley, a spokeswoman for the unified incident command fighting the blaze.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
“It gives the keys basically to the large corporations in the city to basically employ everybody.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
They’re basically polar opposites, like magnets repelling each other.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
