civil
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Gray left Northern Ireland after being overlooked for the top job in the civil service in 2020.
From BBC • Jun. 25, 2026
In July 2024, El Chapo filed a civil rights lawsuit in the District of Colorado federal court seeking to lift the measures and improve the conditions of his confinement.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2026
President Obama said he would consider a small enrichment program for civil nuclear purposes, if very deeply and intrusively monitored and verified.
From Barron's • Jun. 25, 2026
Lenin’s party would soon take power, provoking a long and bloody civil war out of which would emerge the Soviet Union.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 25, 2026
Their tribal governments had three branches: a civil administration, a military, and a branch that dealt with the sacred.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Vocabulary lists containing civil
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address" (1863)
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"Of Mice and Men"
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