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Deputy Public Defender Donna Tryfman said that although the allegations against Harrison are gruesome, her client still has a right to a fair trial.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
In JP Morgan's note, analysts said it estimated the "fair value" for oil in September would be around $90 a barrel, despite it trading above $100.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
The tech companies say their actions constituted fair use.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Let’s make the effort to ensure that these elections are fair, and that they deliver a clear verdict.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
But Colleen, his friend’s mother, used to say: Life is not fair.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
Instead, the proposed framework emphasizes research led locally, greater investment in regional collections and scientific infrastructure, stronger taxonomic expertise, long-term monitoring, fairer international partnerships, and closer connections between scientists and decision-makers.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
She didn’t want laws and social constructs to be fairer, less dangerous, more fulfilling for women as a concept; she wanted it for you, for me, for the lady in the back row.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
"Our reforms will make the system fairer for taxpayers across the country, while protecting councils through the transition and ensuring no area faces a cliff edge."
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Calendar integration is one way that productivity trackers have gotten more advanced and, ostensibly, fairer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Taking the forest road, they swiftly passed from the mountainous wasteland of Endovier and into fairer country.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
The fairest answer is that he was partly right, for reasons he did not fully understand, and he exaggerated the promise.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
It identifies every aircraft that is equipped with it, which is why it is the fairest way to prevent private planes from evading landing fees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
On an index level, free cash flow does the fairest job of that now, and it says that prices are high.
From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026
Whitten was also the fairest of his siblings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2025
In three days, as the King had said, Éomer of Rohan came riding to the City, and with him came an éored of the fairest knights of the Mark.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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