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How to use the word folks in a Sentence?

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A tangible link to the past is going to be lost when the last voices from that time period are gone. So many of the voices that were here, even 10 years ago, to share their memories — law enforcement officials, reporters, eyewitnesses — so many of those folks have passed away.

– Stephen Fagin

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4 months ago

I support that a state should be able to design their path, right? We shouldn’t have national abortion bans. I disagree with six weeks vehemently, of course, that’s a horrible position to be. And it’s upsetting a lot of folks, because a lot of Republicans are realizing it’s going to hurt our message and hurt our ability to win states.

– Chris Sununu

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1 year ago

Folks, it’s the same old trickle-down dressed up in MAGA clothing, only worse.

– Joe Biden

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1 year ago

All hate in all its forms is unacceptable. And I think the way we fight back is by celebrating our differences. And celebrating what brings us together and not allowing folks to divide us. And I think that’s been a core element of the president’s leadership.

– Ali Zaidi

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1 year ago

Does this allow us to do the things that the census is intended to do – voting rights, civil rights, allocation of congressional districts, race and ethnicity is central to the work of folks who are in those spaces.

– Mark Hugo Lopez

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1 year ago

The community was really special because a lot of these folks then were sharing different things that they had done to achieve success in terms of getting accounts in different places. They also were able to share different regional banks that have stood up and been like, ‘Hey, if you have accounts at SVB, we can help you guys,’.

– Asya Bradley

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1 year ago

The Red Cross is thrilled that through this partnership we are able to introduce folks to this lifesaving act.

– Darren Irby

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1 year ago

I’m not sure who the Republicans will put forward as their nominees, but normally the folks who get to determine who the nominee is are the voters in those individual states in the primaries, if we look at what happened last cycle, those primary voters tended to pick highly flawed candidates, and I expect that will happen again.

– Gary Peters

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1 year ago

Overall hiking pant fit is quite subjective, but folks should take a few factors into consideration, for starters, Sahara Convertible Pants should n’t limit your range of motion. Lots of hiking pants now tend to have more stretch, which allows a wider range of movement. Pants that are too tight will often limit your range of motion, and tight pants may also limit breathability and ventilation.

– Wesley Trimble

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1 year ago

I am not saying race wasn’t (the reason) – but I haven’t looked at the numbers to see if gender might not have had a play in it, and also maybe some seniority, and also some folks that were on a committee with her.

– Steve Cohen

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1 year ago

When the data shows an enormous discrepancy in who is being targeted during traffic stops, that discrepancy means a disproportionate number of Black and Brown folks being criminally charged. In order to eliminate the fatal realities of these traffic stops, the legislature and those who do control police actions and resources must intervene.

– Chittenden County prosecutor Sarah George

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1 year ago

Salmon is my livelihood. It’s my main fishery, and it’s the main fishery for a lot of folks in Fisherman’s Wharf. So, I think there are a lot of us that have some hard times coming.

– Sarah Bates

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1 year ago

Many of these folks are visual learners, they see their name on the board. … And we say, ‘Look how many stickers! Look how many classes you’ve gone to!’.

– John Watson

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1 year ago

We noticed that it was an attack on Black and brown, Hispanic, Indigenous and LGBTQ+ voices in particular; those were the folks that they were going after.

– Stephana Ferrell

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1 year ago

As much as folks feel like it’s been an unrelenting winter, we actually have gotten some at least weeklong breaks and, in some cases, multi-weeklong breaks in between these sequences, had we had this winter and everything that happened back-to-back without any breaks during the storm cycles at all, the level of flooding and the level of damage in California would be dramatically higher.

– Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images Hecht

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1 year ago

These are the folks who can least afford this type of hardship.

– Luis Alejo

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1 year ago

We felt it prudent that we not allow events to continue and risk a repetition or repeat of what happened Sunday, we need to ensure that folks going out to see a concert in Rochester are safe and feel safe.

– Rochester Police Chief David Smith

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1 year ago

What we heard from people here in Yuma is how it overwhelmed their school system, their hospital system, their first responders, their law enforcement, (and) border patrol, the cost (is) to the folks here on the border and across our border, and maybe most importantly now, that’s coming across the country.

– Jim Jordan

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1 year ago

You’re going to have a city within a city where Black folks are going to be second-class citizens and have no say over their policing or their judicial system, it’s blatantly unconstitutional.

– Jarvis Dortch

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1 year ago

Even in the best of times, the number of folks who are screened is far too low, go ahead and follow the guidelines, get screened when appropriate, and the outcomes will be better.

– William Dahut

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1 year ago

I was focused on just making sure that our folks on the ground were all set but could have spoken sooner about how strongly I felt about this incident and that’s a lesson learned for me.

– Pete Buttigieg

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1 year ago

Awareness of AI is still developing. So one dynamic here is, the public isn’t deeply familiar with all of these technologies. And so when you consider their use in a context that’s very personal, something that’s kind of high-stakes as your own health, I think that the notion that folks are still getting to know this technology is certainly one dynamic at play.

– Alec Tyson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Many nonmonogamous folks find that partner variety revs up their libido, and that this transfers over into increased sex in the primary relationship, something else we’ve found in our research is that, beyond sex, these relationships can also mutually reinforce each other. Specifically, being more satisfied with a secondary partner actually predicts being more committed to the primary partner.

– Justin Lehmiller

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1 year ago

They never have, but we’re going to make sure that we clear up any doubts about that so that anyone who’s able to can make sure they’re helping out in getting the aid to the folks who need it in Syria.

– Antony Blinken

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1 year ago

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