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BREAKING: US military confirms 700 Marines deployed to Los Angeles as protests grow | BBC News
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VoiceTube posted on 2025/06/10Ever wondered about the role of the National Guard during protests? This BBC News report dives into a tense standoff in Los Angeles, giving you a chance to practice understanding situational dialogue and pick up key vocabulary related to political events. You'll gain cultural depth by seeing how these situations unfold in the US!
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tough
US /tʌf/
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UK /tʌf/
- Adjective
- (Of food) difficult to chew or bite through
- Very difficult to do or deal with
- Noun
- A rough and aggressive person.
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US /ˈtrɪɡɚ/
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UK /'trɪɡə(r)/
- Noun
- Lever on a gun that you pull to fire
- Device that starts a process
- Transitive Verb
- To start a process off e.g. a memory
- To cause something to begin or happen.
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US /bust/
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UK /bu:st/
- Transitive Verb
- To increase something; to make something better
- To push someone or something up from beneath them
- Noun (Countable/Uncountable)
- An increase in something
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US /ˈprɛzəns/
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UK /ˈprezns/
- Noun
- The same place or area that a person is
- Ability to reach a market, group of people etc.
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