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• The mentors are old and wise and given to speaking in metaphors.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2023
• This money was given to you as a gift to help you on your new path of married bliss.
  — Yadi Rodriguez, cleveland, 25 Aug. 2023
• One was given to him by the famous recluse Buckskin Bill.
  — Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
• The award is voted for by members of the media and given to the best female soccer player in the world.
  — Anna Gordon, Time, 7 July 2023
• The Almond and the Seahorse are the nicknames given to the parts of human brains that lay down new memories and hold on to the old ones.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 21 Mar. 2024
• Bruce was the name given to the three mechanical predators built to simulate the great white shark at the heart of the story.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2023
• The work will be given to the Student Visionary Award winner.
  — Marc Malkin, Variety, 22 May 2024
• Pell grants are given to low-income students that do not need to be repaid, unlike a loan.
  — Cheyenne Haslett, ABC News, 15 Nov. 2023
• Abedin also noted that the pair bonded over the drive first given to them by their parents.
  — Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 10 Aug. 2023
• The gun used in the shooting was given to the shooter as an early Christmas present by his parents just days before.
  — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 31 Jan. 2024
• The attention that was given to me during my stay and even before was profound.
  — Jaspre Guest, Fortune Well, 16 Dec. 2023
• Damage control parties were unable to control the fires aboard the ship, and the order was given to abandon it.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2023
• The flame was then given to Jul, a popular Marseille rapper, who lit the Olympic cauldron to wild applause.
  — Ségolène Le Stradic, New York Times, 8 May 2024
• Both vaccines are meant to be given to infants via a three-dose series, then topped off by a booster a year later.
  — Maryn McKenna, WIRED, 9 Oct. 2023
• She was given to city government of Manila in 1981 by the Sri Lankan government.
  — Emma Ogao, ABC News, 1 Dec. 2023
• The firearms will be given to the National Police of Ukraine, according to the agenda of a Phoenix city council meeting.
  — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 10 July 2023
• The award was jointly given to writer-director Jorge Fons.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 1 Jan. 2024
• The hepatitis B vaccine, which is also given to newborns, costs less than $20 per dose.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 3 Aug. 2023
• One of the things parents can do is ask themselves a series of questions that were given to me by the psychoanalyst Tina Bryson.
  — Mackenzie McCarty, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Feb. 2024
• From that surge, the single nabs the chart’s weekly Greatest Gainer prize, given to the song with the largest increase in audience numbers each week among the chart’s 50 titles.
  — Trevor Anderson, Billboard, 20 Dec. 2023
• According to The Guardian, a group of tourists from China were taking selfies and moving around the gondola when orders were given to sit down.
  — Adam Sabes, Fox News, 7 Dec. 2023
• Or that your job, regardless of level, will be given to a degreeless someone else.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 23 Dec. 2023
• Elizabeth Turner is hereby given to the care and guidance of Philemon Hambleton, who will teach her the art and mystery of the house servant.
  — Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
• The plaza’s kiosk — given to Los Angeles by the Mexican state of Jalisco in 1998 — and its surrounding area is an ideal skate spot; the plaza has open space for flat ground tricks and ledges for grinds.
  — Roberto Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2023
• Its name comes from the pizzas that are routinely given to overwhelmed medical workers to raise morale.
  — Josh Funk, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2023
• According to Fisher’s listing, proceeds from the sale — which had a starting bid of $500 — will be given to charity.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 2 Aug. 2023
• In the five regular season games, 14 technical fouls were issued on players and three were given to Griffin, who drew one in the third quarter.
  — Jim Owczarski, Journal Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024
• The contract submission was given to the comptroller’s office from the Parks Department on Aug. 23.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2023
• After the donations are cleaned and refurbished, they are given to students who would like to learn to play but who lack the resources to obtain instruments.
  — Susan Soldavin, Baltimore Sun, 20 July 2023
• This involves tweaking the prompt given to a bot so as to gradually nudge it toward breaking its shackles.
  — WIRED, 1 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024