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Eleri hopes the business will allow her to leave university "debt free" after always wanting to study law at Cardiff University and now being in a "comfortable position" to do so.

From BBC • Jun. 12, 2026

WSJ: You have expressed equally high hopes that your influencers will ignite social buzz.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

Appearing at the court hearing, he told reporters that he hopes to go to Canada via South Korea to reunite with his wife and daughters, who already resettled there.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026

It was hopes of a peace deal and a pullback in Treasury bond yields tied to those slumping crude prices and fading—finally—inflation pressures that gave the bump.

From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026

Farmer was reluctant to raise his hopes too high.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French