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Colin Gray told authorities he had hunting guns in the house, but said his son didn’t have unsupervised access to them, according to the FBI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
The company could move to serve large customers with compute access in the future, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
Instead, the residents of Mohenjo-daro may have cooperated to give households broad access to the resources needed for a comfortable standard of living.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
"You can't access the old app to buy tickets despite ScotRail saying it is available until midday. Rolling this out in one day had disaster written all over it."
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
Operators needed to get water into the fuel pools, but the pools were five stories in the air, and there was no way to access them from below.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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Doing so accesses the car’s maximum torque of over 1,000 Newton-meters—793 lb-ft.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026
Ghasemi said he has been speaking with his brother in Iran nearly every day through WhatsApp, which his brother accesses through paid software to bypass the government filters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2026
The government said the taskforce will advise on ways to make the tech sector more representative and "ensure the UK accesses the full talent pool, market opportunities, and innovation capacity needed for economic growth".
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2025
If the system makes a match, it accesses the individual’s associated tax file and pulls the address listed during the most recent tax period.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2025
Three pontoon bridges were constructed for the crossing of the rest of the army, and accesses to the heights in front of St. Julien were prepared.
From The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Helmuth, Count
The remaining two were only accessed in a "read-only manner" and were not used to help break into Hugging Face, OpenAI said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Other data they accessed revealed the subscriber names and addresses in respect of the caller numbers.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
It ran from the side of the home into the chauffeur’s bedroom, accessed through a disguised panel in a shower wall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
While “tradition” does not claim a fixed constitutional meaning, in practice the court looks to esoteric sources like Blackstone and old legal sources that are not easily accessed by laypeople.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
He quickly accessed the electronic file that he was required to complete after every interaction with a student.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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“They care more about what they see on our streets — whether people are getting into housing, accessing the care they need, and being accountable for how their tax dollars are being spent.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
But after the long queues, it is understood most fans had no issues scanning tickets and accessing the stadium.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
Another 40,000 or so said the proposal “prevents investors like me from accessing information about companies; lets companies hide behind closed doors; and allows fraud to fester.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Their request is usually about accessing their parent’s account.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
I got so good at it that I made it through a few days without accessing once.
From "Every Day" by David Levithan
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