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• Increased exposure and professionalism have dovetailed to produce bona fide stars—people young players can identify with—not least among them England's hard-hitting batter Claire Taylor. Women's Cricket Scores With Investment, Interest
• The discovery of a small planetoid in the Kuiper belt, the distant disk of debris whose chunks eventually formed the solar system, make Pluto's chances of holding onto its status of bona fide planet weaker.
• Bona fides: Longtime activist for Darfur who just returned from a week-long trip in the southern half of the country and briefed President Obama at a White House meeting and Sen. Richard Lugar on Capitol Hill earlier in the day. Celebvocate: George Clooney reps for Darfur
• The regulator says Trillium, through nine proprietary traders, sent non-bona fide orders into the markets to create false volume, thereby attracting buying or selling interest.
• It is also a bona fide best seller, debuting today at No. 9 on the New York Times list.
• With travel and entertainment expenses, the bona fides of the expense may not be so readily apparent.
• The prospects for Alan Hollinghurst's awesomely accomplished but languidly paced The Stranger's Child, for example, were surely inferior, in a game of zippy-style bingo, to yarns that Chris Mullin's mates would hail as bona fide page-turners. The Man Booker judges seem to find reading a bit hard | Catherine Bennett
• Shaped by one of the few men to be trusted with the last precious piece of bona fide linksland in Scotland, it is truly beautiful.
• Bona fide amortal: You have strong amortal inclinations and are already living agelessly, at least in some respects. The Guardian World News
• Not that I regard the foregoing as articles of faith, or as all true; -- I have implied the contrary by contrasting it with, at least, by shewing its disparateness from, the Mosaic, which, 'bona fide', I do regard as the truth. Literary Remains, Volume 2