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Its grammar is shaped by Scotland’s Highlands and Kentucky’s rickhouses, its tone one of tradition and exclusivity.
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Hali Bey Ramdene, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 Oct. 2025
The flag goes global The flag’s journey from Asian streets to protests in France and Slovakia demonstrates how the grammar of dissent has gone global.
—Nuurrianti Jalli, The Conversation, 24 Sep. 2025
The flag’s journey from Asian streets to protests in France and Slovakia demonstrates how the grammar of dissent has gone global.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2025
Airlearn avoids that pitfall by leading each lesson into conversational practice, combining grammar, pronunciation, and context to bridge the gap from recognition to use.
—Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025
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Hali Bey Ramdene, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 Oct. 2025
The flag goes global The flag’s journey from Asian streets to protests in France and Slovakia demonstrates how the grammar of dissent has gone global.
—Nuurrianti Jalli, The Conversation, 24 Sep. 2025
The flag’s journey from Asian streets to protests in France and Slovakia demonstrates how the grammar of dissent has gone global.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2025
Airlearn avoids that pitfall by leading each lesson into conversational practice, combining grammar, pronunciation, and context to bridge the gap from recognition to use.
—Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025
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elements
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Taken together, these triumphal and tragic elements constitute the ingredients for an epic historical narrative that defies all moralistic categories, a story rooted in the coexistence of grandeur and failure, brilliance and blindness, grace and sin.—
Literary Hub,
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28 Oct. 2025
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Her fusion of art rock, electronic, and pop elements in her music has earned her a place among the most influential artists of her generation.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Grammar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grammar. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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