The deputy gang narrative was a political campaign created to discredit my administration, never used during the McDonnell era, and mysteriously disappeared during the current administration.
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Opinion Staff,
Daily News,
5 Apr. 2026
Predators disappeared, resulting in an explosion in deer, further degrading the woodlands and peatlands.
The leader of the Ex-Slave Pension Association was later imprisoned on mail fraud charges, and the organization faded away, while the Eagles became one of the pressure groups that eventually led to Social Security.
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Trevor Jackson,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
Pensions faded, and a new system of 401(k) retirement savings rewarded Americans for working longer.
Gilchrist replies, his voice brightening the way an ancient sun suddenly burns through an evanescing cloud.
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Chris Richards,
Washington Post,
7 June 2023
Monkfish in a gripping mussel broth found its voice in between sips of an off-dry Alsatian pinot gris, its honeyed sweetness just evanescing off the brine of the seafood.
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