the idea
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Members of the public and companies will provide comments on the idea, ahead of the changes potentially taking effect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Brownstein: I don’t like the idea of excluding unvaccinated kids from my practice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Core to the new guidance is the idea that teenagers should start planning childbearing ASAP.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026
"That was the idea, to get a top player, and Morgan is one of them."
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
I’m mortified by this, mortified that Theo could hear me and mortified even more by the idea that he could hear me doing something I wasn’t even aware I was doing.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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