undesirable
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Loketv already has a sequel in the works: “My Undesirable Friends: Part II — Exile.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026
Du’s ruling in August 2021 was the first of its kind since Congress made it a crime almost a century ago to return to the U.S. after deportation under the Undesirable Aliens Act of 1929.
From Washington Times • May 22, 2023
But before the decade’s end, South Carolina Sen. Coleman Livingston Blease would orchestrate a new deal with employers that led to the Undesirable Aliens Act of 1929.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 9, 2023
Undesirable products like metabolic wastes, urea, uric acid, and certain drugs, are excreted by tubular secretion.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Newborn, preschool children, and music: Undesirable consequences of thoughtless neglect.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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