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He was expected to be taking a roughly 200-mile trip from Nashville east to Pigeon Forge on the other side of the state, but his bike was later found abandoned in Bedford County, about 60 miles south of his last known location.
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Olivia Lloyd, Charlotte Observer, 18 Feb. 2025
Health officials will likely increase monitoring of both human and animal populations, particularly in areas with known infections.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 15 Feb. 2025
However, nothing would protect us, or the planet, from the most powerful source of gamma rays in the known universe, gamma-ray bursts.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 12 Feb. 2025
The film charts John Davidson’s troubled teens and early adulthood, stemming from his diagnosis at 15 of Tourette’s, which was a little known and entirely misunderstood condition in 1980s Britain.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 12 Feb. 2025
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Olivia Lloyd, Charlotte Observer, 18 Feb. 2025
Health officials will likely increase monitoring of both human and animal populations, particularly in areas with known infections.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 15 Feb. 2025
However, nothing would protect us, or the planet, from the most powerful source of gamma rays in the known universe, gamma-ray bursts.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 12 Feb. 2025
The film charts John Davidson’s troubled teens and early adulthood, stemming from his diagnosis at 15 of Tourette’s, which was a little known and entirely misunderstood condition in 1980s Britain.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 12 Feb. 2025
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“Known.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/known. Accessed 23 Feb. 2025.
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known
adjective
: generally recognized
a known expert on art
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