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Following the previous two-week international break in November, for example, there was a full slate of Premier League matches on the weekend.—Dan Sheldon, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025 News broke in February 2025 that The Bachelorette was canceled for its usual time slot in 2025 following Season 21 with Jenn Tran.—Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 24 Mar. 2025
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The man who attempted the break-in ran to another man across the street and one of them fired at the fleeing vehicle, wounding the driver, authorities said.—Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2025 Duran-Contreras now faces a second-degree murder charge, with officials arguing his break-in created the chaotic circumstances in which Lopez was killed.—Cristóbal Reyes, Orlando Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for break in
They were arraigned in Queens Supreme Court on an eight-count indictment charging them with burglary, forcible touching, petty larceny and official misconduct.
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Rocco Parascandola,
New York Daily News,
31 Mar. 2025
Muller, who turned 48 on Thursday, pleaded guilty Jan. 17 in a San Jose courtroom to two felony charges of assault with intent to commit rape during a first-degree burglary, related to previously unsolved nighttime attacks on sleeping women in Mountain View and Palo Alto.
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