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My heroine marries an elderly lord with three dead wives in exchange for her little sister’s dowry.—
Eloisa James,
PEOPLE,
12 May 2026 -
Each couple receives a set of items worth about $1,000 that would traditionally be given by the bride’s family as part of dowry.—
Ayushi Shah,
CNN Money,
31 Mar. 2026
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Also announced at the gala, a lead donation from Sarah and Lachlan Murdoch will launch the Horizon Fund — a permanent endowment for MCRI aimed at funding long-term children’s health research and future medical breakthroughs.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
18 May 2026
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The endowment exists to support the mental, emotional and physical wellness of students and staff at the University of North Georgia.—
Toria Sheffield,
PEOPLE,
17 May 2026
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As previously noted, one of the gifts of Russian greats that Saunders most celebrates is their way of locating complex truths in the stuff of ordinary lives—their towns and farms, and their families, their servants; their animals.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 May 2026
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Doing it for the first time is always a celebration and doing it at Critics’ Week is an immense gift because of the care the film receives from the moment it is invited.—
Roberto Prieto,
Variety,
19 May 2026
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This is complicity spurred on by a certain kind of Western readers desire to maintain their romantic image of Russia’s past without having to engage critical with Russia’s present.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
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At present, that additional tuition for nonresident students is the same across the UC’s nine general campuses.—
Tarini Mehta,
Sacbee.com,
18 May 2026
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The bestowal of titles is a centuries-old practice in the royal family.—
Meredith Kile,
PEOPLE,
29 Nov. 2025
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That list had some of the feeling of the bestowal of the King’s birthday honors, except that nearly everyone on it had been charged with a federal crime.—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
New Yorker,
16 Nov. 2025
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The push coincides with an emerging Christian subculture, from churches allowing congregants to tithe with digital coins to blogs promoting bitcoin as biblically sound.—
Kayla Hayempour,
NBC news,
29 Mar. 2026
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Charity is also an important part of the holy month, including Zakat, an obligatory tithe for which a percentage of one's wealth is given to those in need, as well as nonfinancial forms of charity that can range from volunteering to help others to engaging in small acts of kindness.—
Shelby Slade,
AZCentral.com,
16 Mar. 2026
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While eating at the company cafe after the presentation, Otone and Kensuke meet a child version of a humanoid who’s been brought back to REbirth HQ for maintenance.—
Vulture,
Vulture,
17 May 2026
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In a presentation for young athletes — and for the pro teams and college athletic departments that might invite him to speak — Stripling’s firm uses his story of a baseball prospect that got a $900,000 up-front payment and spent the $500,000 after taxes on a red Lamborghini.—
Bill Shaikin,
Los Angeles Times,
17 May 2026
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Though OpenAI was making progress on research and development, Musk had demanded that Altman and other co-founders, including Brockman and Ilya Sutskever, make a list of employees and their key contributions, and fire everyone who didn't immediately make the grade, filings show.—
Ashley Capoot,Lora Kolodny,
CNBC,
18 May 2026
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Because those contributions are deducted at the 37% rate, the IRS subsidizes another $8,510.—
Teresa Ghilarducci,
Boston Herald,
18 May 2026
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“Dower.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dower. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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