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[uh-dres, ad-res, uh-dres] / əˈdrɛs, ˈæd rɛs, əˈdrɛs /






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The child was initially arrested at an address on suspicion of criminal damage to a vehicle, but officers searching the location found "a number of documents of concern", the Metropolitan Police said.

From BBC Jul. 15, 2026

Quijada and Robinson adopt the masks of their characters as freely as they momentarily set them aside to directly address the audience.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

Here are some recent efforts to address the officiating shortage.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

I keep getting notices from Robinhood saying that someone is trying to change my email address.

From MarketWatch Jul. 14, 2026

But Jakob hasn’t responded to any of the letters that I’ve sent to the curious address he provided.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

The Glasgow-based blogger describes himself as an investigative journalist and runs a video channel where he addresses political issues including immigration.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

This new solo album addresses your mental health.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

Sam, can you talk about how Justice Sonia Sotomayor addresses that in her dissent?

From Slate Jul. 7, 2026

Some financial institutions limit services for customers with foreign addresses.

From MarketWatch Jul. 2, 2026

Slowly, he held up three letters, all of them plain envelopes without return addresses.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Zara has not publicly addressed the disaster pants, and if history is any guide, it won’t.

From Salon Jul. 14, 2026

Promoting slum clearance and clean water while preventing adulterated food addressed popular grievances while offering competent, uncontroversial government.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 2026

The announcement provided investors with further reassurance of Micron’s long-term business stability and addressed key geopolitical risks.

From MarketWatch Jul. 9, 2026

“These problems, they have to be addressed, but you don’t address them by reinstating the SAT,” Birnir said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

The confident, unhurried way he addressed my father, the dozens of jokes he made about Miss Genovese.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

There M. Bailly presented, and put into his hat the popular cockade, and addrest him.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I by Lodge, Henry Cabot

In earliest Greece, to thee, with partial choice, The grief-full Muse addrest her infant tongue; The maids and matrons, on her awful voice, Silent and pale, in wild amazement hung.

From The Poetical Works of William Collins With a Memoir by Collins, William

It was addrest to Louis de Santangel, the treasurer of King Ferdinand of Spain.

From Great Epochs in American History, Volume I. Voyages Of Discovery And Early Explorations: 1000 A.D.-1682 by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)

There was ae sang, amang the rest, Aboon them a’ it pleas’d me best, That some kind husband had addrest To some sweet wife; It thirl’d the heart-strings thro’ the breast, A’ to the life.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

Her sister she addrest       While treach'rous smiles beguil'd her soul distrest.

From The Fourth Book of Virgil's Aeneid and the Ninth Book of Voltaire's Henriad by Virgil

These offices run parallel to the agency’s substantive work, addressing broad management issues and conducting investigations of fraud both in and around the agency.

From Slate Jul. 15, 2026

Migration can help offset some effects of Europe's demographic change, the researchers said, but it would have a limited impact on "fully" addressing the challenges posed by an ageing population.

From Barron's Jul. 14, 2026

Von der Leyen said the regulator would look to issue a proposal addressing the issue after the summer.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

Another way of addressing the heat is by wearing phase-change ice vests - jackets with pockets for blocks of ice - before the match.

From BBC Jul. 11, 2026

He turned to the others like a rock star addressing his crowd.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo




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