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For more than a year, student-led protests have swept across Serbia, with some rallies drawing crowds unseen since demonstrations toppled strongman Slobodan Milosevic in 2000.

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

"Additionally, flash floods have swept through several areas, displacing approximately 2,690 families and causing widespread destruction of infrastructure and property."

From Barron's • Mar. 22, 2026

As immigration officers have swept through cities, demonstrators, observers and bystanders have also been arrested, many on charges of allegedly impeding law enforcement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

The pair have swept the past eight Grand Slams and dominated the ATP Tour, leading to one question: can anybody stop them in 2026?

From BBC • Dec. 17, 2025

When microbes arrived in the Western Hemisphere, he argued, they must have swept from the coastlines first visited by Europeans to inland areas populated by Indians who had never seen a white person.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann