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“It’s heartbreaking for her to see this, but thankfully, she’s alive to see it,” Parente said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2026
Sir Keir is one of only two people alive to have led the Labour Party to a general election victory – and a 174-seat majority at that.
From BBC • Dec. 30, 2025
The DUP minister said he was "alive to the implications of overspending" and its ramifications in future years.
From BBC • Dec. 7, 2025
Her fiction, so alive to sensory experience and the interior struggles of the mind and heart, helped extend the literary tradition of Virginia Woolf, a modernist whom Welty deeply admired.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025
“There’s no point to a fortune I won’t be alive to spend. Where’s my hat—did your Tidemaker leave it behind in the alley?”
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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