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pin (on)

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as in to impute (to)

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Autopsies and other investigations will be needed before the deaths are officially blamed on the heat, Washington said.

— Jeffrey Collins, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026
Most of the others have been blamed on natural causes or suicide.

— Ryan J. Foley, Twin Cities, 6 July 2026

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Years of crippling sanctions have paralysed the economy as accelerating bouts of mass nationwide protests have been put down by security forces with increasing force — culminating in the killing of thousands of demonstrators in January.

— Parisa Hafezi, USA Today, 3 July 2026
As word of the violence at the Record spread, Black workers around the city put down their tools and ran home, many of them to the Brooklyn neighborhood.

— Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 3 July 2026

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