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9 total sentences available.
"It’s a madhouse,” said Joan Walsh of Massachusetts, who cut her Florentine tour short with her husband, David Sibley, after the virus reportedly had infected more than 650 people and killed 17 as of late afternoon Thursday.
Source: tatoeba (8586177)
“Kinda sucks,” Walsh said the students responded. Most said they wouldn’t return until after spring break, later, or not at all this semester.
Source: tatoeba (8586187)
Matt Walsh is a pedophile.
Source: tatoeba (11271372)
The right loves actual pedophiles like Matt Walsh and human traffickers like Andrew Tate, which is why they treat these crimes as essential characteristics of their enemies requiring no evidence.
Source: tatoeba (11393096)
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