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of, relating to, or belonging to a single person
he kept personal items in a separate drawer
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Recent Examples of personal
As a group, gun owners are fiercely protective about their personal information.
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Corey G. Johnson, ProPublica, 15 Nov. 2024
Australian fitness influencer Jaxon Tippet, who built a sizable following with online content focused on exercise and personal motivation while also candidly discussing his past addiction to steroids, reportedly died Sunday in Turkey.
—Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
The filing also details the company's reinsurance arrangements, including a new 27% quota share treaty for personal lines and changes to excess of loss and catastrophe reinsurance treaties.
—Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
When the Indian government moved in August 2023 to institute licensing controls on the import of laptops and personal computing devices in the hope of stemming the influx of Chinese technology, a swift backlash from Indian industry groups forced it to scrap its plans.
—Harsh V. Pant, Foreign Affairs, 14 Nov. 2024
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Corey G. Johnson, ProPublica, 15 Nov. 2024
Australian fitness influencer Jaxon Tippet, who built a sizable following with online content focused on exercise and personal motivation while also candidly discussing his past addiction to steroids, reportedly died Sunday in Turkey.
—Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
The filing also details the company's reinsurance arrangements, including a new 27% quota share treaty for personal lines and changes to excess of loss and catastrophe reinsurance treaties.
—Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
When the Indian government moved in August 2023 to institute licensing controls on the import of laptops and personal computing devices in the hope of stemming the influx of Chinese technology, a swift backlash from Indian industry groups forced it to scrap its plans.
—Harsh V. Pant, Foreign Affairs, 14 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for personal
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Comedian, by selling first for $120,000 in 2019 and now selling to crypto entrepreneurs Justin Sun, agrees with this subjective theory of value, highlighting the sometimes arbitrary nature of art pricing.Natalie Stoclet, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
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More subjective measures point to a Trump bump as well.Sarah Bedford, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2 Nov. 2024
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To photograph the intimate, in the private sphere, but also the presence of these couples in the public space (during lesbian demonstrations for example).Vogue, Vogue, 20 Nov. 2024
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In 2020, the company was acquired by the private equity fund Permira from the Carlyle Europe buyout fund.Luisa Zargani, WWD, 20 Nov. 2024
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Recent history is replete with elections which seemed more transformational at the time than a few years later, attributable more to the individual winner or circumstances than to a more basic change.Carl Leubsdorf, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
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When applied to each state’s eight individual grades used in my scorecard, this geeky math shows California’s grades had the highest deviation.Jonathan Lansner, Orange County Register, 14 Nov. 2024
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“Personal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/personal. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
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