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The problem is purely with those users who have multiple accounts or maybe ones set up purely to store photos or data that have not been accessed in a long while or forgotten about altogether.
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Davey Winder, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
Whatever the case, the good news is that the cosmic afternoon will last a long while—about 100 trillion years by some estimates.
—Florian Freistetter, Scientific American, 11 July 2024
Lunn took out a small key and struggled for a long while to open a padlock that secured a heavy chain around the door handles.
—Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
And now comes his first starring role in a long while, in M. Night Shyamalan’s latest thriller, Trap (in theaters).
—Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 3 Aug. 2024
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Davey Winder, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
Whatever the case, the good news is that the cosmic afternoon will last a long while—about 100 trillion years by some estimates.
—Florian Freistetter, Scientific American, 11 July 2024
Lunn took out a small key and struggled for a long while to open a padlock that secured a heavy chain around the door handles.
—Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
And now comes his first starring role in a long while, in M. Night Shyamalan’s latest thriller, Trap (in theaters).
—Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 3 Aug. 2024
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“A (good) long while.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/a%20%28good%29%20long%20while. Accessed 5 Oct. 2024.
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