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"The guy who sells clams, the one who sells boiled eggs, the one who sells green mango with salt, the wafer seller, the ice cream seller... What's become of those people?" the 39-year-old asked.
From Barron's ● Jul. 11, 2026
“Now I don’t know who Faye Wader really is,” the insecure and secretive host thinks, “or what will become of her.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
What will become of this nursery in the wild in the next hundred years, or thousand, is the crux of a scientific and policy dispute.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026
What’s become of Kennedy’s plan to make America healthy again is a testament to the power of exposure and collective outrage.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2026
“Good Heaven! what is to become of us? What are we to do?” would they often exclaim in the bitterness of woe.
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
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