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“He’s the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more. There’s a feeling in back of it.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 21, 2023
Keeping quiet and wearing a gray dress shirt, Hamilton hugged four people after the hearing in back of the small courtroom in downtown Seattle, until deputies applied handcuffs and escorted him out the hallway doors.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 24, 2023
“We are putting all of this time into understanding them,” Graham says, “but always in back of our minds, it was like, ‘We know what the gestures mean.’”
From Scientific American • Jan. 24, 2023
As they left Düsseldorf by train, Ruth began a diary: “Germany lies in back of us,” she wrote.
From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2023
Then, with a start, I hurried outside and ran to the alley in back of our house.
From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata
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