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More rain was forecast throughout Sunday for Bangkok and its surrounding provinces, but would begin to taper off on Monday, it said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
"From nine in the evening, we begin setting up the telescopes for the night's stargazing sessions."
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Some investors caution that if the 10-year yields remain near 5.20% or climbs even higher, borrowing costs could begin to drag on risk assets and broader economic growth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
“You would begin to see the rental prices for AI compute come down. You could see inventory of various items build along the supply chain,” including chips and servers.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
The early mornings were busy with bargain shoppers, and then the regular shoppers would begin to arrive around ten o’clock, she reported.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
The “but” is where the sentence really begins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
The large semiconductor manufacturers “are high operating-leverage businesses. If supply begins to outstrip demand, the earnings for these companies go down pretty quickly. You need to be careful,” Wilhelm said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
Zeta-Jones has been praised by fans for using her Welsh accent in the thriller, which begins on 2 October.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Abbott, who begins work immediately, joins the museum as its sixth director since 2008.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
Just at that moment the parade begins, and everyone cheers.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
The subculture organized around the fear that AI could kill us all began to coalesce more than a decade before the invention of the underlying technology that enabled it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
Breach's simple finish came in the next play as any fears of a first loss in four years began to dissolve.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
McDuffie began his rise to NFL stardom during a high school career that featured stops at Santa Ana Mater Dei, Anaheim Servite and Bellflower St. John Bosco, before playing in college at Washington.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
Many of those attempts began after the scrolls were discovered in 1752.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
“When I was a girl—” Tante Jans began.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Meanwhile, Democratic Virginia Congressman Don Beyer says excavation work on the site where the arch will stand has already begun.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
But by following year, the nonprofit’s finances had begun to falter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
WPP said it had begun a formal search process for a successor to Chief Financial Officer Joanne Wilson, who is leaving to become CFO at Guinness maker Diageo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
The Washington Post reports that ICE has begun firing some recent recruits, citing “red flags that should have been identified earlier, or poor performance.”
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
Instead, some of us had begun calling ourselves “Negroes,” a term more of our choosing, though still not perfect.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
But the winter had been rainy, and the beginning of spring as well.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
Four years on, they are confident astronomers, with evenings beginning around 9pm.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
About 50 seconds before the classically defined beginning of REM sleep, brain blood volume started to increase.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
Horror has been a cornerstone of the industry since the beginning, but Oscar voters have rarely embraced it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
‘In the river I was beginning to feel -dizzy.’
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
