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to state as a fact usually forcefully
alleged that the restaurant chain was engaging in discriminatory hiring practices
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Recent Examples of alleged
David Gilbert, WIRED, 16 Dec. 2024
One day after the alleged incident, Lewber attended a New Year’s Eve with Windsor Celebration event on Dec. 11.
—Joelle Goldstein, People.com, 14 Dec. 2024
Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
In addition, the complaint alleged that the appraiser used sales from Black neighborhoods further away from Cheroutes' home.
—Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2024
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Another popular theory relates to the number 286 and its multiple links to the alleged shooter.
—David Gilbert, WIRED, 16 Dec. 2024
One day after the alleged incident, Lewber attended a New Year’s Eve with Windsor Celebration event on Dec. 11.
—Joelle Goldstein, People.com, 14 Dec. 2024
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Advertisement The state agency also alleged that during sensitive procedures such as a pelvic examination, Naim failed to have a chaperone present for the patient or give her a chance to request one.
—Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
In addition, the complaint alleged that the appraiser used sales from Black neighborhoods further away from Cheroutes' home.
—Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2024
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According to Ed Norton, Bob Dylan insisted that James Mangold include a wildly inaccurate scene in A Complete Unknown.Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2024
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According to a study by Accenture, 62% of those surveyed insisted that brands speak out on important (social, cultural, environmental and political) matters.Jon Michail, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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Adams is the outlier in a film obsessed with its own supposed cleverness.Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
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Chinese state media said that a gold ore deposit site with supposed reserves of more than 1,000 tonnes at a depth of 2,000 meters had been located in the Wangu goldfield in Pingjiang County in central Hunan province.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2024
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Subsequently, media reports asserted the argument was about Tavares refusing to back the industry push to renegotiate the EU CO rules which insist 80% of new sedan and SUV sales are EVs by 2030, and 100% by 2035.Neil Winton, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
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So the Court has asserted that although the taxpayers may manage taxpayers' data in their own way in an effort to combat tax fraud, there are certain limits and those instruments should always be in line with GDPR regulations.Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
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This means that Teste consecrates himself to a basically hypothetical existence.Benjamin Kunkel, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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To get into this hypothetical portfolio, a stock must have five-year historical earnings growth of 25% a year or better, yet the stock price must be 12 times earnings or less.John Dorfman, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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Other researchers contended that these communities hunted for larger game.Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2024
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Eli was drafted by the Chargers and sent to the New York Giants via trade, a move many contended was a result of his family's wishes.Chantz Martin, Fox News, 8 Dec. 2024
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And the exploitation of the total resource, including unproved but technically recoverable resources, is fairly low, less than 2% per year.Michael Lynch, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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During the 2020 wildfires in Oregon, for example, armed men hampered firefighting, fueled by unproved rumors that antifa had set the fires.Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2024
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Some Arctic scientists and experts have criticized Real Ice’s methods as unproven at scale, ecologically risky and a distraction from tackling the root cause of climate change: fossil fuels.Laura Paddison, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024
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Before the attack, Trump repeatedly spread unproven claims of widespread voter fraud.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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Cox had a reputation for yelling slurs at girls out of the window of his Chevy, an unsavory fact that ballooned into motive in speculative conversations.Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
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Some states such as Maryland passed laws recently to completely outlaw speculative tickets.Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2024
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“Alleged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alleged. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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