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Turkish EU membership, for example, has al-ready been hung up on French and German fears that integrating Turkey would mean integrating millions of its citizens.
Europe’s Big Choice 2010
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Indeed, if you didn't take my advice and watch the stirring Gold Cup soccer final between the United States and Mexico, you may have al-ready missed the best this summer has to offer.
A Bummer Summer 2007
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So it is in love to me, that you are to put on al-ready all the husband
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Lengthening my letter would be T 2 only dwelling longer (for I know not how to change my subject) on weaknesses and follies that have al-ready given you too much pain for your
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Let us, madam, as Mr. Beauchamp and I are al-ready the dearest of friends, begin & family under — standing.
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You have al-ready engaged the doctor to secrecy, 1 doubt not.
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Despite his personal goal, if it had been possible to isolate her from the investigation he would al-ready have done so, his preferred option being to send her to his mother in London with strict instructions she be kept under lock and key until he came to fetch her.
A Lady of His Own Laurens, Stephanie 2004
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Miles had no real interest in Stewart's own revanchist scheme to re-create himself as a punk, when what he considered to be the real thing, Chelsea and the Cortinas and Mark P., were al-ready on his books.
Broken Music, A Memoir Sting 2003
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Neither of us will address the very real possibility that Andy will have no interest in joining our wretched little band or that we al-ready seem to be painting Mike out of the picture, as if he is an unwanted Trotsky in a retouched photograph of the politburo.
Broken Music, A Memoir Sting 2003
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Companies such as wireless-communications firm Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, are al-ready shipping sample chip sets with integrated GPS technology, so that cell-phone makers can build phones with embedded location technology.
E-COMMERCE THE STAFF OF The Wall Street Journal 2001
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