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Police said the current patrol district map has not been updated since the turn of the century.
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Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2026
Like Walter Camp did at the turn of the century, Brown both elevated the quarterback position and chipped away at it, trying to keep it in its place.
—CBS News, 8 Feb. 2026
Nearly 1 in 6 prisoners are 55 and older ‒ a significant increase since the turn of the century ‒ according to a report from the American Civil Liberties Union and the Prison and Jail Innovation Lab at the University of Texas at Austin.
—N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 8 Feb. 2026
Even after homosexuality was decriminalized in the post-Soviet country at the turn of the century, intolerance has been commonplace.
—Ryan Oehrli
updated February 6, Charlotte Observer, 6 Feb. 2026
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Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2026
Like Walter Camp did at the turn of the century, Brown both elevated the quarterback position and chipped away at it, trying to keep it in its place.
—CBS News, 8 Feb. 2026
Nearly 1 in 6 prisoners are 55 and older ‒ a significant increase since the turn of the century ‒ according to a report from the American Civil Liberties Union and the Prison and Jail Innovation Lab at the University of Texas at Austin.
—N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 8 Feb. 2026
Even after homosexuality was decriminalized in the post-Soviet country at the turn of the century, intolerance has been commonplace.
—Ryan Oehrli
updated February 6, Charlotte Observer, 6 Feb. 2026
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