How To Use Circumstantial In A Sentence

The criminal inquiry relies on circumstantial evidence and does not solve the riddle of MH370. Times, Sunday Times
Kids, who are circumstantial outsiders, tend to identify with such creatures and envision them as their vengeful protectors.
The former, in relation to a thing as being in the number of entities; (2.) the latter, in reference to something inherng in a thing, being present with it or one of its circumstantials -- or in reference to a thing as producing something else, or as being produced by some other -- and if there be any other affections and relations of things among themselves. The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1
In order to be able to convict him, they're going to be able to tie him, circumstantially or through direct evidence, to the deaths of these individuals.
a circumstantial report about the debate

The lack of evidence and the circumstantial nature of the testimony caused a public outcry.
A superintendent told the court that no body or weapon had been found, but that there was an overwhelming amount of circumstantial evidence.
You can't convict a man of a crime on circumstantial evidence alone.
Since then more and more circumstantial evidence, much of it detailed and plausible, has been discovered as more alleged victims have come forward. Times, Sunday Times
It was a complex case and the evidence was circumstantial. Times, Sunday Times
Prudentials, according to general rules of Scripture, may be of use in circumstantials, but will bare prudentials in substantials also satisfy either our God, our covenant, our consciences, or our end in this great work of reformation? The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
The aetiology remains unknown, but much circumstantial evidence suggests that immunological mechanisms are involved in the pathogenesis.
Despite the absence of precise measures, there are a few types of circumstantial evidence that suggest legislative weakness.
And some, like me, are what I call "circumstantially infertile. The Truth About Childless Women
There was a mass of circumstantial evidence linking Watson to the murder.
Gibingly circumstantial was an insurance web site not to tichodroma the bibliothecarial vice, or triumvir, of the cytoarchitecture neuropteron stupaed to sunday the blether of that zooplankton. Rational Review
Mrs Chivery derived a surprising force of emphasis from the foregoing circumstantiality and repetition. Little Dorrit
We may also reply that "lasciviousness" relates to certain acts circumstantial to the venereal act, for instance kisses, touches, and so forth. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
Circumstantial evidence, I know, but evidence that strongly suggests that the engineer was clobbered by a heavy metallic instrument.
He had compiled a file of largely circumstantial evidence.
If there are any who imagine, that positive and direct evidence is absolutely necessary to conviction, they are much mistaken; it is a mistake, I believe, very common with those who commit offences: they fancy that they are secure because they are not seen at the moment; but you may prove their guilt as conclusively, perhaps even more satisfactorily, by _circumstantial evidence_, as by any _direct evidence_ that can possibly be given. The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of
In this workshop it will be suggested that both specific and circumstantial evidence point to a particular time when these translations, or metaphrases, were made and why.
He had compiled a file of largely circumstantial evidence.
You can't convict him merely on circumstantial evidence.
All of the evidence is circumstantial and requires the drawing of inferences.
The circumstantial case is strong. Times, Sunday Times
The increasing direct epidemiological evidence that relates insulin-like growth factor-I to the risk of cancer is consistent with more circumstantial evidence.
That's what we call circumstantial evidence of cheating -- or, if we are "culturally sensitive," we call it "cooperating. Archive 2006-10-01
Because direct evidence of a discriminatory motive is difficult to produce, cases are generally built around circumstantial evidence. Human Resource Management in Government
We have nothing but what they call circumstantial evidence. Pendragon: Before the War: Book One of the Travelers
Although it's clear she doesn't blame her mother ( "It was a circumstantial thing," she says), she was deeply affected by what she refers to as a traumatic separation. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
The circumstantially imposed corrections refer to the discursive move toward offering impartial, even detached, moral judgment.
The case against the claimant was circumstantial, but on the facts, the journalists were justified in concluding that it was a strong circumstantial case. Times, Sunday Times
What they could not forgive, or get over, was the extraordinary circumstantiality of the fictions which with she had gulled them: to be able to invent lies with such proficiency meant that you had been born with a criminal bent. — The Getting of Wisdom
Change can seem painful in the short term, but, if you are willing to embrace it proactively, its lasting impact will nearly always be physically, spiritually, intellectually, and circumstantially transformative. God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu …
It had been confirmed circumstantially anyway.
Theer wor what they call circumstantial evidence to show how all t 'affair happened! The Talleyrand Maxim
And it is clear from reading his evidence that his conclusion was firmly based on that medical and circumstantial evidence, as one would expect.
This involves a consideration of the reasonableness of the inferences to be drawn from the circumstantial evidence.
The case against the claimant was circumstantial, but on the facts, the journalists were justified in concluding that it was a strong circumstantial case. Times, Sunday Times
No, it's not just a coincidence, it is circumstantial evidence of his guilt.
If again, it was not well cut, he would answer, I spake not true: this is called the reproof valiant: if again, it was not well cut, he would say, I lie: this is called the countercheck quarrelsome: and so to the lie circumstantial, and the lie direct. Act V. Scene IV. As You Like It
Yet the circumstantial evidence is compelling. Times, Sunday Times
If there are any who imagine, that positive and direct evidence is absolutely necessary to conviction, they are much mistaken; it is a mistake, I believe, very common with those who commit offences: they fancy that they are secure because they are not seen at the moment; but you may prove their guilt as conclusively, perhaps even more satisfactorily, by _circumstantial evidence_, as by any _direct evidence_ that can possibly be given. The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of
There is no absolute proof of it, only strong circumstantial evidence and much rumour. The Times Literary Supplement
He includes much by way of circumstantial detail without allowing his central narrative to become shapeless.
All the circumstantial evidence points to a bomb. Times, Sunday Times
The evidence is circumstantial so far. Times, Sunday Times
Leaving aside the circumstantial evidence, each of the three main pieces of evidence mentioned above would be enough to disprove claims that the fragment is truly ancient. Christianity Today
The word circumstantial was bounced around harder than a cricket ball. Above Suspicion
The Lucullan villa at some point gave way to a monastery, enshrining the bones of Saint Severinus; circumstantial evidence suggests that Romulus and his mother may have founded it. The Road from Ravenna
The evidence for the so-called atomic theory has been very much circumstantial.
There was considerable circumstantial evidence, but no direct evidence, to connect him to the murder scene. Times, Sunday Times
he was convicted circumstantially
What made her wince was the amount of circumstantial testimony falling into place so inexorably against him. Crooked Trails and Straight
There is no shortage of circumstantial evidence to suggest the latter. Times, Sunday Times
Some states will attend sessions to defend against any circumstantial or uncorroborated evidence on their human rights situation.
Some one who could put the circumstantial jigsaw puzzle together.
With respect, I believe the trial judge erred by failing to recognize that subjective belief can be, and frequently is, proven by indirect or circumstantial evidence.
The combination of circumstantial and scientific evidence points surely and conclusively to him. Times, Sunday Times
There is only circumstantial evidence against her, so she is unlikely to be convicted.
Coupled with this is the circumstantial evidence of the contactees.
All you will ever have is circumstantial evidence and an un-falsifiable hypothesis.
It was a complex case and the evidence was circumstantial. Times, Sunday Times
There is no absolute proof of it, only strong circumstantial evidence and much rumour. The Times Literary Supplement
I have set down, and that, too, with all the circumstantiality of an eye - witness. 2 2 The Purcell Papers
The book includes a long and circumstantial account of Empson's conversation with the Queen.
There was other circumstantial evidence also produced at trial.
It could, indeed, and Mr Arlidge builds up a very strong case based on circumstantial evidence.
Despite the absence of precise measures, there are a few types of circumstantial evidence that suggest legislative weakness.
His circumstantiality sometimes has the powerful effect so often remarked in the descriptions of Defoe.
All the circumstantial evidence points to a bomb. Times, Sunday Times
There's a difference between saying Addabbo sand-bagged gay marriage on purpose, or circumstantially because they were called upon first to cast their votes. What if His Name Were Zaddabbo?
It would be easy to lengthen out our historiette into one of circumstantial evidence, trial, condemnation, and ultimate discovery; but we have preferred telling it as it really happened. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art.
O that, Stephen expostulated, has been proved conclusively by several of the bestknown passages in Holy Writ, apart from circumstantial evidence. Ulysses
In the earlier chapters, there's a fixation with circumstantial detail - especially of the geography of Surrey - which gives the whole narrative an immediacy which is curiously intensified as the conflict goes on and fewer and fewer characters get names - "the artilleryman", "the curate", and rather oddly to today's reader, "my wife". March Books 13) Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein
Still, this was all circumstantial evidence rather than proof. Times, Sunday Times
After drawing the distinction between fundamentals, which may not be shaken, and circumstantials, which it is in the power of Parliament to alter and modify, he continues: -- Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
How much of this was circumstantial and how much of it was my brain chemistry is hard to say. Times, Sunday Times
Evidence is classified as real evidence, testimony, direct evidence, and circumstantial evidence.
The concept of ‘worldliness’ for Said was a profound understanding of circumstantiality and the role of what Marx refers to as ‘sensuous’ human activity in interpretation.
They chat about story outline and structure, intentional and circumstantial comedy and planning out multivolume series. Archive 2009-06-01
You can't convict a man of a crime on circumstantial evidence alone.
The circumstantial case is strong. Times, Sunday Times
Leaving aside the circumstantial evidence, each of the three main pieces of evidence mentioned above would be enough to disprove claims that the fragment is truly ancient. Christianity Today
There is no shortage of circumstantial evidence to suggest the latter. Times, Sunday Times
Again, whether or not any such overt decision was made by whites in this regard, the result was the same -- a gradual uprooting of blacks, circumstantially forcing them out of the District. Glenn Beck's Decision To Scratch Plan To Promote His Book May Have Been Wise
The case against him was largely circumstantial.
She was still suspected of it; indeed, I think that in the minds of the black satin codfishes circumstantial evidence had tinkered suspicion into certainty. Set in Silver
They concede, however, that their case against Sharif rests on circumstantial evidence.
In fact, contrary to popular opinion, circumstantial evidence is often extremely reliable.
The book includes a long and circumstantial account of Empson's conversation with the Queen.
The case against McCarthy is based largely on circumstantial evidence.
JUDAISM so largely supplied the circumstantial and doctrinal germs out of which dogmatic Christianity grew, that we cannot thoroughly understand the Christian belief in a final day of judgment, unless we first notice the historic and literary derivation of that belief from Judaism, and then trace its development in the new conditions through which it passed. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
With me, the "firm conviction" is a matter of "circumstantial evidence," supported by analogy, and fortified by empirical testimony, such as acquaint the world with the facts and findings of science, and which I think admit of no other consistent and rational interpretation. The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology
Without that, as they admitted, the evidence was circumstantial. Times, Sunday Times
It is an opinion too common, that if we believe the _essentials_ of religion, there is no occasion for so much preciseness about the forms of church government, which are only _circumstantials_, as there will be no inquiry made about these at the tribunal of Christ. The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
It was a complex case and the evidence was circumstantial. Times, Sunday Times
The combination of circumstantial and scientific evidence points surely and conclusively to him. Times, Sunday Times
(We can only guess at the date from circumstantial evidence, but classified government filings docketed in our challenge to the NSA Program, CCR v. Bush, and some stray comments from Sen. Bonior support the notion that the secret court ruled in April.) Shayana Kadidal: Dems on FISA Modernization: It's Not Worse Than The Military Commissions Act
You would never be able to link it up circumstantially.
Despite the absence of precise measures, there are a few types of circumstantial evidence that suggest legislative weakness.
There is other circumstantial evidence that supports the suspicious nature of his initial entrance to those premises.
All of the evidence is circumstantial and requires the drawing of inferences.
The fact that Cannabis is a mild narcotic is circumstantial; the way it reaches people and who it reaches is the problem.
The case against my client rests entirely on circumstantial evidence.
This government allows no execution of any part thereof, neither in substantials, nor circumstantials, but according to the particular, or at least, the general rules of Scripture respectively. The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
Because direct evidence of a discriminatory motive is difficult to produce, cases are generally built around circumstantial evidence. Human Resource Management in Government
It is true that Guandique, who has since been indicted and will stand trial in October, is connected to the crime only circumstantially, but he seems to have repeatedly boasted in prison to fellow inmates about killing Chandra Levy. First the Murder, Then the Frenzy
And, indeed, there is a huge amount of circumstantial evidence supporting the basic historicity of the Bible.
It is at least very rash, if not presumptuous, to say, that nothing about the circumstantials of religion will be inquired into at the tribunal of The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
He also brought back with him, his biographers assert, an infant daughter, the offspring of an amour, as some of them with great circumstantiality inform us, with a Lisbon lady of noble birth, whose name, however, as well as that of the street she lived in, they omit to mention. Don Quixote
Intent can, of course, always be proved through circumstantial evidence.
Yes, but no single piece of circumstantial evidence ever is completely probative of the ultimate fact.
Edward Holden he may as well be, if your shallow pates will not be clogged with too many circumstantials. Clarissa Harlowe
Somehow, the sense of circumstantiality and of power in reserve (if an anecdote or example doesn't sound strained but sounds as if you've got fifty others and this is the best one you chose) are factors that are rhetorically important.
Pureeing their own research with published sources, Mr. Summers and Ms. Swan confect a circumstantial case involving protection money paid by members of the huge royal family to keep bin Laden's terrorism outside the kingdom's borders, intercession by Saudi cultural agents—likely spies—to help two of the hijackers in California, and stonewalling by Saudi intelligence after the attacks. A Decade After
There is no shortage of circumstantial evidence to suggest the latter. Times, Sunday Times
If they only have circumstantial evidence, can they still conclude that a material breach has occurred?
It was a complex case and the evidence was circumstantial. Times, Sunday Times
There was a substantial body of circumstantial evidence implicating the accused in addition to the informer's evidence.
It must be remembered that most criminals are convicted in our courts of law, by circumstantial evidence.
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The jury will not convict on circumstantial evidence alone.
There is no shortage of circumstantial evidence to suggest the latter. Times, Sunday Times
We've had a great deal of circumstantial evidence suggesting that indirect transmission occurs.
That is four England players in a year with similar injuries, all circumstantial evidence that the human spine can only take so much rugby. Times, Sunday Times
He submitted that that evidence provided a powerful circumstantial case of murder.
Yet the circumstantial evidence is compelling. Times, Sunday Times
The circumstantial evidence is merely overwhelming.
The prosecution case was left to the jury as a circumstantial case.
The criminal inquiry relies on circumstantial evidence and does not solve the riddle of MH370. Times, Sunday Times
They stick right to the truth, they're logical, and we have to be truthful and logical about the decisions that we make and the choices that we make, and to add more pain to a family that might be suffering by giving hope is cruel and unnecessary, if you're only aware of it, but certain circumstantials -- some certain circumstances sometimes say that you have a right to have hope. CNN Transcript Jun 13, 2002
As it is not properly a term of the British marine, a more circumstantial account of it might be considered foreign to our plan.
He goes on to note that Carlyle's narrative cuts rapidly "from individuals, often humble and seen only momentarily, and highly particular situations, rendered in full concrete circumstantiality, to cosmic and world-historical perspectives, with many intermediary points in between. The Chroniclers Who Bring the Past Alive
He said he was not sure the jury would impose the death penalty in what he termed a circumstantial case. Undefined
The circumstantial evidence all attests to these being excellent translations.
She has portrayed herself as a victim of a witch-hunt by power-mad officials who would use circumstantial evidence to ruin her reputation and career.
The circumstantial evidence all pointed towards cold as the precursor to death, but despite this the official inquiry gave drowning as the cause of death in every case.
Also, it was not, she began to grasp, a case of stating a simple fact, in simple words; it meant all the circumstantiality of complicated explanation; it meant a still more murderous tearing up of emotion. Maurice Guest
The evidence is circumstantial so far. Times, Sunday Times
Faced with the circumstantial case, jurors took eight hours of deliberations spread over three days to return a verdict. Times, Sunday Times
An attempt is made in it, by simplicity of style, minuteness of nautical descriptions, and circumstantiality of narration, to give it that air of truth which constitutes the principal attraction of Sir International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850
BANFIELD: Yes, that's what you call circumstantial evidence. CNN Transcript Mar 6, 2009
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Still, this was all circumstantial evidence rather than proof. Times, Sunday Times
The most epidemiological important are reservoirs, such as some marsupials, edentates and rodents, because of their habits and favorable circumstantial local conditions, as disforesting, weeding and plowing, are capable to approximate to humans and play a significant role in linking the sylvatic and domestic cycles of the parasite.
It appears that the government intends to offer a circumstantial case, premised on the timing of alleged telephone calls between the two men and trades that Rajaratnam caused the hedge funds he managed to execute," said Gary Naftalis, Mr. Gupta's lawyer, in court papers. Gupta Asks to Bar Wiretaps
In this semi-unconscious state of chloralism it is not unusual for circumstantial and _bizarre_ visions to present themselves -- more especially to individuals unaccustomed to the use of the drug. Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Mystic-Humorous Stories
You can't convict him merely on circumstantial evidence.
Her circumstantial account was accepted by thousands who had hitherto remained sceptical.
Some States will attend sessions to defend against any circumstantial or uncorroborated evidence on their human rights situation.
He adds that ‘A rhetorical education reminds us of the inevitable circumstantiality of all human judgment, but shows us how we can control and offset that circumstantiality.’
The almost dreamlike film that seems to cover his paintings, softening and refining reality, is swept away in the drawings on view, which have the immediacy, the circumstantiality, of life itself. Two Complementary Quests
Sure, I can imagine some of the circumstantial detail that would make the story sound more immediate.
Norcaster Gaol in my time all through what they call circumstantial evidence. Scarhaven Keep
You can't convict a man of a crime on circumstantial evidence alone.
This was a solid circumstantial case, and for a non-celebrity, it was a no-brainer.
Mark," and the unapostolic origin of the fourth gospel, are points which may for the future be regarded as wellnigh established by circumstantial evidence. The Unseen World and Other Essays
The criminal inquiry relies on circumstantial evidence and does not solve the riddle of MH370. Times, Sunday Times
‘You can prove the case circumstantially,’ she said.
His movements were of an impossible circumstantiality, out of all proportion to the trifling service she had asked of him; for, at heart, she cared as little about the rushes as about anything else. Maurice Guest
Soil temperature was not controlled in our study, and so the evidence linking temperature and root mortality is circumstantial.
In the case of Cornelis Drebbel, who invented a bright red dye color by mixing cochineal with a tin mordant, we cannot prove that the inspiration for the invention was directly related to this production method for gold purples, but, even if the connection is only circumstantial, it is a circumstance we cannot completely ignore. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
There was a lot of circumstantial evidence but they still needed a clincher, something cast iron that would carry a conviction.
From the legal standpoint, especially in regard to the requisite proper care in pursuit of a claim, use of this database on the Internet is solely in the realm of circumstantiality and does not relieve the individual engaged in a search of the need for further searching and exploration.
They cannot judge in any cause prudently and conscientiously, till they have complete knowledge and information of both the substantials and circumstantials of all those cases that are brought before them; they must not judge blindly, or by an implicit faith, &c., but by their own light. The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
They do add bits of circumstantial detail, but the images are like glittery found objects glued to the surface of a sculpture.
Nobody sees what happens, but there is other circumstantial evidence implicating him.
In other words, it is said he should have concluded that the circumstantial evidence was not capable of supporting such an inference and as such there was no evidence of an act of confinement which would support the committal.
Sometimes one has to rely on probabilities and on circumstantial evidence; which I always thought was less unreliable than oral evidence.
Walton is splendidly pompous and circumstantial when extolling the Babylonian gods.
There is very strong evidence of motive in a circumstantial case.
In it, they offered a string of circumstantial evidence for Mars having once harbored life.
He builds up a very strong case based on circumstantial evidence.
Fiction captures and holds our interest with two kinds of suspense: circumstantial suspense – the lowly appetite, aroused by even comic strips, to know the outcome of an unresolved situation – and what might be called gnostic suspense, the expectation that at any moment an illumination will occur. 2008 May 13 « One-Minute Book Reviews
Detectives were forced to put together a ‘magic circle’ of circumstantial evidence which would condemn Stone.
This made her vainly imagine that there was no positive proof against her, and that circumstantials only would not convict her. Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
One would almost have supposed he must have been their contemporary, and have actually beheld the passages which he related, so much had he identified his feelings and opinions with theirs, and so much had his narratives the circumstantiality of an eye-witness. Old Mortality
Her death, and the respect paid to her memory, are related with a circumstantial minuteness which is truly honourable to her character. Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I
There was a substantial body of circumstantial evidence implicating the accused in addition to the informer's evidence.
Since then more and more circumstantial evidence, much of it detailed and plausible, has been discovered as more alleged victims have come forward. Times, Sunday Times
It was purely circumstantial that I should meet them so soon after we started seeing each other, so I tried not to become too overwhelmed by the experience.
Without that, as they admitted, the evidence was circumstantial. Times, Sunday Times
The stroke of the palsy has been related circumstantially; but he was also afflicted with the gout, and was besides troubled with a complaint which not only was attended with immediate inconvenience, but threatened him with a chirurgical operation, from which most men would shrink. The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.
The forensic and circumstantial evidence as to the drink she had taken may be found at paragraphs 9 and 10.
It would be open to a jury to find that those facts are some circumstantial evidence which supports the Crown's case.
The case against my client rests entirely on circumstantial evidence.
Faced with the circumstantial case, jurors took eight hours of deliberations spread over three days to return a verdict. Times, Sunday Times
“Situation ethicists” of the last generation (e.g. Fletcher 1997) emphasized the importance of taking into account a wide range of circumstantial differentiae, but against the background of some general principles whose application the differentiae help sort out. Moral Reasoning
As in national law, in international criminal law a culpable state of mind is normally proved in court by circumstantial evidence.
The case against McCarthy is based largely on circumstantial evidence.
In it, they offered a string of circumstantial evidence for Mars having once harbored life.
The chief cause of his deceptiveness was the fabrication of circumstantial narrative, and the invention of exact numerical accounts. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius
Well," cried Mr. Lake, "all I can say is that I have had my suspicions since last night, and now I am certain, that is to say circumstantially certain. Varney the vampire; or, The feast of blood. Volume 3
How much of this was circumstantial and how much of it was my brain chemistry is hard to say. Times, Sunday Times
Or reduce the value of his testimony to the point where it was no longer strong enough to support the circumstantial evidence... A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE
There was considerable circumstantial evidence, but no direct evidence, to connect him to the murder scene. Times, Sunday Times
This avowal was made upon oath, and Schedoni, by the questions he put to him, was careful it should be so full and circumstantial that even the most prejudiced hearer must have been convinced of its truth; while the most unfeeling must have yielded for once to indignation against the asperser, and pity of the aspersed. The Italian
That is four England players in a year with similar injuries, all circumstantial evidence that the human spine can only take so much rugby. Times, Sunday Times

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