as in either
in addition to what has been said
there's the cost of the car itself, and then there's the cost of insurance and maintenance
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The team then starts another long, delicate task: preparing the pig kidneys for implantation.
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Rob Stein, NPR, 17 Dec. 2024
The gunman then walked closer to Thompson, firing more times before fleeing.
—Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 5 Dec. 2024
No one is ever just mid in childhood and then ends up being a billionaire.
—Lauren Goode, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2024
Researchers then tried to verify those findings by analyzing aerial and satellite images from Google Earth.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 5 Dec. 2024
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Rob Stein, NPR, 17 Dec. 2024
The gunman then walked closer to Thompson, firing more times before fleeing.
—Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 5 Dec. 2024
No one is ever just mid in childhood and then ends up being a billionaire.
—Lauren Goode, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2024
Researchers then tried to verify those findings by analyzing aerial and satellite images from Google Earth.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 5 Dec. 2024
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The play call likely should not have been so do or die, either.Tim Graham, The Athletic, 9 Dec. 2024
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The impact doesn’t have to be limited to Q4, either.John Hall, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
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His uncles are former President John F. Kennedy, also a former Massachusetts senator who was assassinated in 1963; and former Sen. Ted Kennedy, who served from 1962 until his death in 2009.Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
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During her 40-year-plus career, Delano also worked in such films as Ratboy (1986), A Mighty Wind (2003), The Wicker Man (2006) — as the bitchy Sister Beech — Miracle Mile (1988) and The Ladykillers (2004).Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2024
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The Russians are juggling the materiel and manpower demands of the long-running war, punitive Western sanctions, low oil prices, high interest rates, inflation, a labor shortage, endemic corruption, and much more besides.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Nov. 2024
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Murderbot wouldn’t care, and besides, there are more books to write.Meghan Herbst, WIRED, 26 Nov. 2024
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To Schilling, Hill, and their colleagues, this means that although predictive deep learning programs have their uses, the burden of proof needs to be much more rigorous when using them in situations such as medical research.Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 13 Dec. 2024
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Research conducted by the Urban Institute found that medical debt is more common in the South and among people in low-income ZIP codes.Gretchen Morgenson, NBC News, 13 Dec. 2024
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“Then.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/then. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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