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For the better part of its final decade, Rawhide was my bar.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026
For the better part of this year, both governments spoke optimistically about the possibility of finalising the interim deal.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026
Having spent the better part of the past decade making streaming series — “Too Old to Die Young” for Amazon and “Copenhagen Cowboy” for Netflix — Refn has once again returned to cinema.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
MarketWatch spent the better part of a day recreating it.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
The staff had been handling the first fifty-three patients for the better part of two years, with astonishing results.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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