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But Prof Damian Roland, a practising emergency medicine consultant, notes that the drama does illustrate wider health challenges.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
To illustrate, consider the accompanying chart that plots the relationship between the 20 largest developed countries’ population growth over the 2000-25 period and the corresponding performance of their stock markets.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
Life specialized in photo essays in which the pictures did not illustrate the story but told it, and this was Smith’s forte.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
To illustrate the time savings of building autonomous AI agents with Astra, the company said the model could cut apartment hunting from six hours to under 10 minutes.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
To illustrate nature’s musical laws we can use a piece of pipe or tubing.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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When the hearings finished, we put together this timeline which illustrates how events unfolded.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Hegel’s reading of “Antigone” illustrates his thesis-antithesis-synthesis view of dialectical progress.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Chinese automaker BYD’s decades-long investment in chip design and manufacturing illustrates how control of key semiconductor technologies can boost competitiveness as export controls spur adoption of domestic alternatives, it says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
The accompanying chart illustrates how strong the seasonal headwinds are during this period.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
Hiskey’s story illustrates just how hard it was for Soviet spies to get at American secrets.
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
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Arsenal's superiority was illustrated by having 26 shots, their most in a single Champions League match since records started being kept in 2003-04.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
The market timers’ unseemly rush for the exits is illustrated in the accompanying chart of the average recommended equity exposure among a subset of short-term market timers who focus on the Nasdaq stock market.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
Recent volumes include a 2023 edition of Zora Neale Hurston’s classic Harlem Renaissance novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” illustrated by Los Angeles artist Kenturah Davis that sold for $4,100 in the deluxe edition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
"Narrative art is stories that are illustrated," Bates said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
They’ll research all his illustrated notes and compare, compare, compare.
From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg
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In recent years, Unite Here Local 11 has filed numerous complaints over the Inglewood facility, claiming various wage and health issues, illustrating a bitter battle over movement at the bargaining table.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Gakpo ranks in the 78th percentile for link-up play, the 75th for pass progression and the 67th for creative threat, illustrating his comfort combining in tight spaces and contributing to build-up play.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
That’s more than 3% of the country’s adult population, illustrating the feverish extent of stock market speculation and the danger of leverage.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
Most of these well-performing vehicles are larger products, illustrating the continued appeal of such vehicles in the United States.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
A group of tourists with cameras around their necks huddled by the counter, some sampling stuffed clams, others pointing to a large chart illustrating fifty different varieties of North Atlantic fish.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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