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While that particular claim may warrant scrutiny by the fact-checkers – who suddenly have a lot of spare time in which to parse such statements, now that the Facebooks and Twitters of the world have dispensed with their services – other Trump achievements are less qualitative.
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Sean Lee, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
Ayers was born in Los Angeles to parents who worked as a schoolteacher and parking attendant but played music in their spare time—his mother a piano instructor, his father a trombonist.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 6 Mar. 2025
Mentally healthy adults do not spend their spare time fantasizing about extreme violence.
—Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2025
For years, James Cook tinkered with a catalytic approach to the tree evaluation problem in his spare time.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 18 Feb. 2025
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Sean Lee, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
Ayers was born in Los Angeles to parents who worked as a schoolteacher and parking attendant but played music in their spare time—his mother a piano instructor, his father a trombonist.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 6 Mar. 2025
Mentally healthy adults do not spend their spare time fantasizing about extreme violence.
—Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2025
For years, James Cook tinkered with a catalytic approach to the tree evaluation problem in his spare time.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 18 Feb. 2025
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“Spare time.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spare%20time. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.
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