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It is a centuries old legend of stealing from the rich to give to the poor, freshly adapted for the big screen, filmed entirely in Northern Ireland.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
"Of course, we feel caught in the middle," he added, as he he watched a screen showing fluctuating gold prices across the globe.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
The New York school system, the nation’s largest, announced it will also limit screen time for younger students under its new policy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
The city is also putting limits on screen time and making AI literacy courses available to high-schoolers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Without tearing my eyes away from the screen, I reach for my phone again.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
She has focused her efforts there with a thesis that people are spending more of their lives behind screens, making the moments they spend in the physical world more valuable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Under the screen-time policy, students have no access to screens until the second grade and permissible screen time is gradually expanded as students get older.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Grieving relatives gathered at identification centres to watch LED screens showing pictures of retrieved bodies, occasionally closing their eyes when the grim exercise overwhelmed them.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
Smartphones have fooled us into thinking that we curate what our screens show us.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
Why couldn’t they just use universal touch screens for everything like we did back home?
From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth
The film grossed more than $9 million and Trump screened it approvingly at Mar-a-Lago.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
DSI has screened over 7,000 export shipments since June, the CEO said, analyzing roughly 100 outbound vessels daily to build oversight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
The organization has screened his films regularly for decades and Brooks has appeared at its theaters a dozen or so times to discuss his work and collaborators.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Cellphones were banned from the ceremony, bags were closely screened and delegates put through a metal detector by a sizable security force.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
When he was secure in the middle he was in a little cabin screened off from the open space by a few leaves.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
They do so in a quantitative way, screening for stocks whose rolling six-month, one-day percentage change is the inverse of the S&P 500 daily’s movements.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
The findings could ultimately help shape future recommendations for obesity screening and encourage routine waist measurements to become more common in health care.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
The ubiquity of AI-assisted answering—not to mention the risk of hiring candidates who might be lying about where they live, or even working for North Korea—has companies upping their screening tactics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
A major security operation was nonetheless being maintained with soldiers screening people entering the presidency with metal detectors.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
She asked the judge to order one final screening.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
