anchor
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“I was sitting behind the anchor desk, and there was the teleprompter, the camera and that’s it,” Walker said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
The defining mistake of the past 40 years of retirement planning is treating Social Security as a guaranteed floor strong enough to anchor everything else.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026
It can’t, because the institutions that might anchor it—codified term limits, intraparty democracy, collective leadership norms—were either never established or were already hollowed out before he arrived.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
"We've got football news - we call it soccer - the rest of the world calls it football," says anchor Bob Ley in an upbeat delivery to the camera.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
They were more than kind and courteous, and took us at once on board the Czarina Catherine, which lay at anchor out in the river harbour.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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