receiving
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After receiving a flood of messages from people, she decided that instead of responding to each person individually, she would share her apartment picks on her interior design website.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026
Individual employees in Asia and Europe began receiving notifications that they would be affected early in their mornings, with employees in the Americas to follow, the people said.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
Your rights are limited to receiving the correct balance and obtaining a clear explanation of how that balance was calculated.
From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026
Patients who had signed off on the two-drug treatment but whose pills hadn’t yet reached the post office had to be recontacted to consent to receiving misoprostol alone and reeducated on how to use it.
From Slate • May 18, 2026
The joy which Miss Darcy expressed on receiving similar information, was as sincere as her brother’s in sending it.
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
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