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"When I wanted to have a shower, I would maybe find a place outside, in public, so to change myself was not too easy."
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Its AI tool has been learning behaviour patterns from cameras in public facilities such as shopping centres and stations.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
Yet he later claimed in public that he never argued for locking anything down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Several private schools in Ohio and Virginia permit paddling as discipline even though those states outlaw corporal punishment in public schools.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
By the late 1970s, Fischer hadn’t played a single game of chess in public since Iceland.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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