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Adverb
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As Palmer described in The Art of Asking, they were not attracted to each other at first.—
Lila Shapiro,
Vulture,
13 Jan. 2025 -
In the days since the fires first started — breaking out in the Pacific Palisades, Eaton, Hurst, Lidia, and Sunset — the news out of the region has been a steady list of lives lost, homes burned, and local landmarks reduced to rubble.—
Clio Chang,
Curbed,
13 Jan. 2025
Adverb
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The debate over the UFC's pound-for-pound number one took a turn at the weekend as White conceded that undisputed lightweight champion Islam Makhachev is now the UFC's pound-for-pound number-one fighter.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
22 Jan. 2025
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The relationship series is now in more than 20 territories worldwide, with more than 60 seasons and over 900 episodes produced.—
Anna Marie de la Fuente,
Variety,
21 Jan. 2025
Adverb
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With the Nuggets also defeating the Heat in Denver on Nov. 8 earlier this season, the Nuggets have now swept their two-game regular-season series against the Heat in five straight seasons.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
18 Jan. 2025
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Just five hours earlier, Bojanovic and his girlfriend had evacuated after noticing the fire inching closer, ash falling from the sky and the area beginning to fill with smoke.—
Dalia Faheid,
CNN,
18 Jan. 2025
Adverb
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Some tried Fire Road, an alternate evacuation route during emergencies, but before long that passage was surrounded by flames, residents said.—
Jon Schuppe,
NBC News,
11 Jan. 2025
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But when hundreds of millions of users are updating, even a very small percentage impacted is a large number of people—and those people can be vocal and can take to forums and social media to make their point, and that gets picked up and amplified, and before long there’s a perception issue.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes,
29 Dec. 2024
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