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"To be clear, this is not a final decision on the merits of the government's stay application, and we await further action."
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Setting up a trust and/or bequest is a way you can take action; that can do far more than words, which are open to misinterpretation, can.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
Unlike robots trained on video alone, this allows its AI to connect user actions to their consequences in virtual worlds, yielding a large action model.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Where I lose patience, though, is when a director assumes the audience doesn’t have a collective brain cell among them and attempts to get away with serving action fans a ration of gruel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Nikita Khrushchev put his hedgehog plan into action that summer.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
The lists did not propose any official actions against those named.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Nine accounts on the platform Polymarket made millions on U.S. military actions in Iran, winning nearly all of their 80 wagers on U.S. strikes and ceasefire negotiations.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026
There are certain actions that give us a semblance of control: writing letters, setting up a monthly annuity, creating a family trust.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
Viewers, too, will be made anxious by the simulated plane as well as the faux fire, smoke and collapsing architecture, though the actions being recalled by specific survivors remain the province of their memories.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
It said I should go and splash water on my face and then I should meet him at the only café in Souilly so we could toast my heroic actions.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
Vocabulary lists containing action
TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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Common Core Grade 6, List 1
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Common Core Grade 5, List 1
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