in the end
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In 2024, the company offered more than $8 billion to plaintiffs as part of a bankruptcy attempt that could have ended the ovarian-cancer talc litigation but in the end, a judge didn’t approve it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
After all, you both want the same thing in the end.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
But, in the end, it was only ever going to be Kerr.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Will such scrutiny, in the end, make players uptight or liberate them?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
But in the end it was to her I went.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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