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Paramount has said it will be prepared to move its operations from California to a friendlier state such as Tennessee in October if it can’t reach an accord with California and the other 11 states.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
In his campaign for the top Fed job, Warsh said he was open to a rewrite of the accord, but he hasn’t given any specifics.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
Under the terms approved Wednesday, the two sides must reach an accord on the cost of those additional services by October 2027.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Armando Novoa, the government representative who negotiated with the group, has sought to reassure them that legal protections prevent De la Espriella from dismantling the accord.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
For this brief moment, the two physicists’ ambitions and skills fell into perfect accord.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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These accords involve Arab or Muslim countries normalizing relations with Israel.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026
The Israeli prime minister famously clashed with Bill Clinton over the implementation of the Oslo peace accords.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
"It seems to me highly unlikely in the near term you're going to see any broadening of these accords," he said.
From Barron's ● May 25, 2026
Each turnover being a rare event, most every fresh host has been greeted with a chorus of “Who? What? Why?” before time accords the newcomer a patina of inevitability.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
My emotional life accords with the designs, too.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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"The Iranian side had requested permission on 28 February for three ships in the region to dock at our ports. This was accorded on 1 March," Jaishankar told parliament on Monday.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2026
Selecting a Thanksgiving day was a royal prerogative, he declared, accorded solely to him as the representative of the Catholic King James II. Andros named Dec. 1 as Thanksgiving Day for all New England.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025
That AFP was accorded rare access to film and photograph a competition for women and girls was itself a sign of greater official openness.
From Barron's ● Nov. 17, 2025
Fans — many? most? all? — saw these arrests as special bad treatment accorded to a famous person, but, says Reubens, “30 years later, I still feel the effects all the time.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025
The Took family was still, indeed, accorded a special respect, for it remained both numerous and exceedingly wealthy, and was liable to produce in every generation strong characters of peculiar habits and even adventurous temperament.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Sami dropped Brady’s pass, caught Brees’s throw and was “basically destroyed” by McEnroe, he said, according to the court decision.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Cambridge answered detailed complaints about Mr. Arday’s work in 2023 with his department’s “full support,” according to Retraction Watch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
“He was a stagehand and a sound man,” according to an obituary for Bernardi.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Most of the migrants swam around the border fence and at least 100 people died during the mass crossing, according to figures from Ceuta's mayor, Juan Jesús Vivas.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
This was the result of the Swanburne hair poultice that was applied on a regular basis, to repel lice and fleas and encourage healthy scalps, according to school policy.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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