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Also, during the course of . In the process or progress of, as in the famous phrase from the Declaration of Independence (1776), “When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands ...” These phrases have been criticized as needlessly wordy ( in or during alone are adequate), but they have an emphatic rhythm that keeps them alive. [Mid-1600s]

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“And those are all things that are going to come out in the course of your conversations, right?” he said.

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In the course of all this, we get a good picture of each client, their family background, formative traumas, hopes and dreams.

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It's one of the first dedicated hoarding projects of its kind in Europe – and it also provides training to agencies who might encounter hoarding behaviour in the course of a home visit.

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Or will he take further steps toward a geostrategic alliance with Moscow, in the course of which he will likely halt further military and intelligence assistance to Ukraine, possibly letting Kyiv fall and the U.S.-European alliance—which is most challengingly focused on the fate of Ukraine—crumble?

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Long, long ago, in the course of my time in high school and college, I realized that Black people in the South were still dealing with a form of American fascism not so dissimilar from Apartheid in South Africa.

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in the cold light of day in the dark

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