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present-day technology has rendered yesterday's marvels obsolete
the present-day administration in Washington
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Instead, her account begins where most standard histories end, and culminates in present-day Britain, with Brexit and the fall of the statue of Edward Colston, a slave trader long venerated in Bristol.
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Balaji Ravichandran, Washington Post, 12 June 2024
Later, the camera swirls around the ghostly, blank shelves of the Empty Library, a present-day memorial built into the cobblestone streets of Berlin’s Bebelplatz.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 June 2024
Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to the U.S. Congress and the first Black major party candidate for president, was born to immigrant parents from British Guiana (present-day Guyana) and Barbados.
—Jared McCallister, New York Daily News, 9 June 2024
British Columbia’s Indigenous peoples saw centuries of dispossession as Europeans resettled them onto reserve lands mostly outside present-day Vancouver.
—Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 June 2024
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Balaji Ravichandran, Washington Post, 12 June 2024
Later, the camera swirls around the ghostly, blank shelves of the Empty Library, a present-day memorial built into the cobblestone streets of Berlin’s Bebelplatz.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 June 2024
Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to the U.S. Congress and the first Black major party candidate for president, was born to immigrant parents from British Guiana (present-day Guyana) and Barbados.
—Jared McCallister, New York Daily News, 9 June 2024
British Columbia’s Indigenous peoples saw centuries of dispossession as Europeans resettled them onto reserve lands mostly outside present-day Vancouver.
—Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 June 2024
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“Present-day.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/present-day. Accessed 29 Jun. 2024.
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