anchor
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Splash opened in 1991 and closed in 2013, serving for 22 years as the anchor of gay Chelsea.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
Fox News parted ways with Maria Bartiromo after the longtime anchor disclosed coverage plans to the White House.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
O’Donnell left the morning shift in 2019 to become anchor of the “CBS Evening News.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Guest: Catherine Rampell, economics editor at The Bulwark, author of the Receipts and anchor at MS NOW.
From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2026
They tied the boat to the Shadow Dancer, and Irian hauled up the anchor.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
Moshiri, who joined the BBC in 2003 and is one of the news channel's best-known anchors, told the BBC she wanted to share her diagnosis to raise awareness about the disease.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
TV anchors always lead into the story of a celebrity who’s died, “The nation mourns today.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Banner-University Medical Center anchors an excellent healthcare system that features a high ratio of primary-care doctors per capita.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Subsea internet cables, which may run for thousands of kilometres beneath oceans, are occasionally damaged by ship anchors.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
The babble of news anchors with their interactive electoral maps always jangled my nerves.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
They ended up trading concrete and a conventional lawn for Chateau Chaparral, a native garden anchored by drought-tolerant plants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
"These results reflect diligence, resilience and a prosecutorial approach anchored on evidence and courtroom outcomes."
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Notably, long-term inflation expectations have remained anchored, with the bond market instead passing on the adjustment through higher real rates.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
The vessel remains anchored off England's southern coast.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
They had been off Alicante about a week when a ship flying the American flag anchored near them—the Ember, from Salem, Captain Gorman commanding.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
He has slashed .234/.357/.486 over 1,039 regular-season games with the club, anchoring lineups alongside countless big-name teammates while evolving into a trustworthy defender.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Unlike virtual dark tourism that allows for “armchair travel” to real-world dark heritage sites, there is no physical location anchoring the Backrooms nor any historical tragedy to commemorate.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
An institutional investor is anchoring a $35 million PIPE, or private investment in public equity, alongside the de-SPAC transaction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Pollution, and disturbance from anchoring, bottom trawling and dredging and coastal development have all contributed to its decline, the trust said.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
We were surrounded by love—the eclectic, multicultural Obama kind and the anchoring Robinsons-from-the-South-Side kind, all of it now interwoven visibly, pew to pew, inside the church.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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