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to take place
how did all this come about?
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So these incidents came about because news travelled slow.
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Louise Erdrich, New Yorker, 25 May 2025
Last year’s freedom summer declaration came about after the state overruled a practice in Tampa of deploying rainbow lighting during Pride Month.
—Natalia Jaramillo, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 May 2025
The warning comes about two weeks after a Florida woman was killed when her canoe startled an 11-foot alligator at Lake Kissimmee, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
—Mark Price, Miami Herald, 20 May 2025
The department also recently ended a decades-old school desegregation order in Louisiana that came about in the wake of the Supreme Court's landmark Brown v. Board of Education case.
—Bart Jansen, USA Today, 22 May 2025
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Louise Erdrich, New Yorker, 25 May 2025
Last year’s freedom summer declaration came about after the state overruled a practice in Tampa of deploying rainbow lighting during Pride Month.
—Natalia Jaramillo, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 May 2025
The warning comes about two weeks after a Florida woman was killed when her canoe startled an 11-foot alligator at Lake Kissimmee, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
—Mark Price, Miami Herald, 20 May 2025
The department also recently ended a decades-old school desegregation order in Louisiana that came about in the wake of the Supreme Court's landmark Brown v. Board of Education case.
—Bart Jansen, USA Today, 22 May 2025
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Don’t miss what’s happening People on X are the first to know. Don’t miss what’s happening People on X are the first to know.—
X (formerly Twitter),
X (formerly Twitter),
30 May 2025
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Sure enough, that’s what happened with the Broncos.—
Nick Kosmider,
New York Times,
29 May 2025
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There are also tons of deals on travel clothes, from matching sets to wear on the plane to comfy maxi dresses to go from day to night.—
Aly Walansky,
Travel + Leisure,
24 May 2025
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There are two souvenir shops — The 1-UP Factory and Mario Motors stores.—
Samantha Neely,
USA Today,
23 May 2025
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The final decision came down to online safety and the need to maintain professional relationships with her clients.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
People.com,
25 May 2025
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Then, when rates do come down and investors go looking for higher income, the value of these funds’ bonds—and indeed the value of these funds themselves—should rise.—
Michael Foster,
Forbes.com,
25 May 2025
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Building failures, from malfunctioning boilers and coolers to plumbing and roof leaks, are increasingly occurring, some of them during high-profile medical and tech conventions, the most recent just a couple of months ago.—
Lori Weisberg,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 May 2025
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Though the park did not specify what year the church was developed, scholars generally say that Late Antiquity occurred between the third and sixth centuries.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
25 May 2025
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