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There is no way to totally protect your self-esteem or your bank account, but you can make smarter choices about who you ask out by taking some preliminary steps before a date.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
News of Anderson’s death came via the band’s Instagram account, which said he died Monday in Sydney.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
The characterization approaches psychosis, in other words, which doesn’t exactly amount to an illuminating account of the pursuit of power or celebrity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
In the US, more than 95 million people have a Venmo account, external.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
“And a prophecy made before you were born cannot take into account the greatest influence of all.”
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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In its complaint, the state said investigators set up TikTok accounts posing as 13-, 14- and 15-year-olds in Alabama and switched on Restricted Mode.
From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026
But many consumers’ investment accounts have been lifted by soaring stocks indexes, which have been boosted by strong corporate earnings and AI optimism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
In the case of RXJ0528+2838, however, astronomers cannot identify any known process that fully accounts for what they observed.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026
The earliest scientific accounts of elephants practicing "self-medication" date back to the early third century.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Many of its fifty-two thousand accounts were offshore holdings, secretly deposited—many without names, just numbers—as tax havens for American citizens.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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The Gulf Coast produces far more diesel than it consumes and accounted for roughly 90% of U.S. distillate exports last year, while the East and West coasts rely in part on imports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Another notable outlier in the data was the “other managed assets” category, which accounted for 22.7% of the wealth in young households.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
Thanks to home video and cable TV, the film, not accounted as a success in its time, has become lodged in the childhood memories of several generations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
All on the boat are believed to have been accounted for.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
That’ll be a blow to the black marketeers and others like them, but even more to people in hiding and anyone else with money that can’t be accounted for.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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There are arcane accounting techniques for tracking the ripple effects on land use.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
The nation is also the world's biggest maker of humanoid robots, accounting for more than nine-tenths of global shipments in the first half of the year, according to independent policy institute Chatham House.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Seven years at $7,000 a month is roughly $588,000 before accounting for increases in the cost of care.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
In fully accounting for every part of our relationship with Cosby’s many television personas, we only begin to get a sense of how extensively he hoodwinked millions of people.
From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2018
Dad, Dad, Dad, stop with the accounting talk for a minute.
From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick
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