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“I wanted to take pictures of each dog as they removed the dog to prove that the dogs were not emaciated or in bad shape as they keep saying they are,” she says in the video as she records workers carrying dogs to the trucks.
From Los Angeles Times
“All right,” she said, “rules: There’ll be no marble playing inside the school-house, even in bad weather, and there’ll be no playing for keeps, anywhere.”
From Literature
When the chairs reach him and his father Anand, they are usually in bad shape with torn cushions and missing legs.
From BBC
His choices didn’t always jibe with the zeitgeist; 2020 may have been the year of protests and debates about policing, but it also saw Smith’s return as a cop in “Bad Boys for Life,” the highest-grossing film in the franchise’s history.
From Salon
During the redemption window, neither firm was reporting a surge in bad or risky loans.
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