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“I’m really excited, and I’m so happy that people are starting to trust me and they’re really coming to me for real estate support.”
From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026
These days, a horror film must also be a blistering allegory for real life, with plenty of subtextual significance for the thinking viewer to glom onto.
From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026
He went shopping for real estate, first buying out the warehouse space he had been renting, then turning back to the idea of reviving the bookstore.
From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026
All this set the stage for real trouble: the Oil Crisis of 1973.
From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026
And there were museum tickets and swimming lesson vouchers and videos of wondrous places Josie’s father had never even heard of, that Josie would need to pretend she’d visited for real.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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