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Many volatile chemicals responsible for urine odor begin changing quickly once urine is deposited.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Protocols to begin the "gradual restoration" of power were activated, the operator's national load dispatch director Felix Estrada said, with the process ongoing on Saturday.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
The preliminary bouts begin at 2:30 p.m. and will be broadcast on UFC Fight Pass and Paramount+.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
The company is also testing a small patch containing the virus that can be tapped onto the trunk of trees that are already infected, allowing it to enter the tree and begin producing resistance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Jonah expected the other kids to begin shouting out, “Time travel? What are you talking about? Are you nuts?” or “The ripple? The paradox? Yeah, right. Try the psych ward!”
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
If this investment goes well, he then tries to persuade other struggling people that they should invest in Bitcoin, and the cycle begins anew.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
Once contraction begins, this network tightens inward and then returns to its original configuration.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
Is it aliens we are seeking, “The Pineapple” begins to ask, or simply perhaps purpose?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
The distinction is especially important now as Washington begins to legislate in an atmosphere shaped by the more dramatic version of this story.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Before I can glare some more at Woo, the sword begins vibrating in my hands like those electric coasters that restaurants give you.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
He replaces his fellow Black Cap, whose tenure as Test coach began with stunning highs before turning sour with the Ashes defeat and his sacking this summer.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
Cats that had already become accustomed to the original sample began sniffing more again when the BFA fraction was switched.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Beatty has only missed one hearing in her court case since it began in December.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
In 2025, she faced sharp criticism over the city’s response to the January Palisades fire, and for being in Ghana when the fire began amid high wind warnings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
ON the night of Sancho's seventh day as governor, just when he began to fall asleep, there was a great commotion outside.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
Looking back, I suspect my father had recently begun making a little more money, because that afternoon we bought two things I distinctly remember never having had before: Kerrygold butter and a jar of Rao’s.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
"That's one of the key things for me to develop and my work with Joe has begun."
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
“The Pineapple” promised to be intense, but even hours before the show had begun, it had me startled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
He’d already begun to work on a podcast and possible documentary about the case when he asked me, an old acquaintance, to partner with him.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
However, the heat of the pyroclastic flow at noon melted several glaciers and significantly added to the flow of water and mud that had begun earlier in the day.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
Scientists have been attempting to measure big G for more than 225 years, beginning roughly a century after Isaac Newton introduced his law of universal gravitation.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
She also called out Disneyland for its exhaust-spewing Autopia attraction, along with former Times climate columnist Sammy Roth, and Disneyland responded by announcing in 2024 that it was switching to electric cars beginning in 2027.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
That brings me back to the incident many years ago, as I stood in the Russian woods with my friend, underdressed and with my teeth beginning to chatter.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
Damien Corvin believes the gap between starting out in Northern Ireland and building a career is beginning to narrow.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
Chinatown was beginning to draw tourist traffic, but unfortunately the shop wasn’t on either of the two main arteries of the neighborhood.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
