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“If the agreement defines a direct competitor as any other company under the sun, that could be considered unreasonable and then that agreement could not be enforceable,” he says.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
A hot sun beat down on the Pocomoke River when Tracy and Steve Hurley claimed choice seats two hours before the Aug. 15 showdown featuring 10 boats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
All this should help him make a success of his daunting role flying close to the sun.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
The plastic table she has set up to try to sell a few last items brought from home, and the umbrella shielding her from the relentless sun, were bought with donations.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Each day, Father Monaghan finds some modicum of peace in nature: the singing of morning birds, the distant crowing of roosters, the sun shining through mango trees.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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The holes in the colander will project a grid of crescent suns onto the ground.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Spare guitar chords give way to a female voice that sounds unpolished but beautiful: “I want to lay with you/ In an open field/ Where yellow flowers are suns of Earth.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026
In Nepal's eastern plains, rival political flags depicting blue bells and red suns flutter over tea farms and brick homes -- symbols of a local election campaign shaping landmark nationwide polls.
From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026
That is roughly the mass of 19 suns lost annually, an amount large enough to disrupt the supply of material needed to form new stars.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 19, 2026
I looked back at the kid selling clay suns, but he was looking somewhere else now.
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
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Backstage at the Blue Note jazz club, Wyclef Jean spreads out on a couch with the air of a sunned cat, his temperament dialed warm.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026
Because the home has been staged, buyers won’t be able to sit at the very kitchen table where the Kardashian clan gossiped over salads, or the poolside lounges where they often sunned themselves.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 17, 2026
She settled on a grassy knoll, sunned herself and took a nap.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2023
Perched on a pylon, a pelican sunned its wings.
From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2023
From the rear—particularly where his vertebrae were visible—he might almost have passed for one of those needy metropolitan children who are sent out every summer to endowed camps to be fattened and sunned.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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On the banks of the Waal, the Dutch branch of the Rhine, swimmers are sunning themselves on a Nijmegen beach that didn't exist before the river level dropped a few months ago.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
He can often be seen sunning himself on the dock, with other sea lions dozing or barking away nearby.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
In almost every case, they were nearly motionless at the surface, sunning themselves in the warm morning light.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2025
While sunning herself on the beach with Uncle Bryn, Smithy, Nessa and the rest of the Shipman-West crew, she conceded maybe Barry Island wasn't so bad after all.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2024
In the fields the rabbits sat sunning themselves, with only their forked ears showing above the grass heads.
From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck
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