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"I'm shocked at her," he told Italian daily Corriere della Sera.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
At the same time, he does visit the popular region of Veneto, but skips Venice, focusing instead on Treviso and Isola della Scala, the lands of, respectively, radicchio and rice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
"I'm shocked at her. I thought she had courage, but I was wrong," the US president said in an interview with Italian daily Corriere della Sera.
From Barron's ● May 3, 2026
"We could find ourselves having difficulty obtaining missiles and weapons to defend our skies," he told Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026
And yet della Porta could not bring himself to rethink his world in the light of this simple discovery.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
"No controversy -- I think we'll do good things together with the courts and trade associations. I think we're on the right track," Della Valle said.
From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026
In August, he spent three weeks in his homeland at Khabib Nurmagomedov's gym, helping Islam Makhachev prepare for the November UFC title fight against Jack Della Maddalena.
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2025
The Olympian and former ambassador to Belize just welcomed her second child, Della Rose Kwan, according to a Thursday post on social media.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2025
Ali Della Bitta’s clay-and-mixed-media pieces, shown by Artist Estate Studio, are dazzling assemblages that tread the line between delicacy and solidity, playfulness and solemnity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025
In my personal collection I have tapes by such old-time greats as Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Lotte Lehmann and Lisa Della Casa; that’ll give us something to discuss while I set up my Voigt-Kampff equipment.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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