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For as long as I’ve been a journalist, which is a really long time, public entities have hated public records requests, even while claiming they don’t.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2026
That also means it’s able to “control the global market to a certain degree,” as long as it can get its oil to market.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 25, 2026
Dahlia Lithwick: These were incredibly consequential gut punches, two more in a long sequence of brutalizing cases.
From Slate • Jun. 25, 2026
Although following her husband's death, Queen Victoria was absent from Buckingham Palace for long periods of time.
From BBC • Jun. 25, 2026
Grandpa Earl was a jazz musician and he’d be gone for long stretches of time.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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