branch
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A $2 painting of a leopard dangling from a branch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
The wish-granting branch packaged in an eye-catching box is flanked by framed photos of “Obsession,” the small-scale horror film turned global box-office smash to which it is central.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
Instead, zhelestids appear to have belonged to a very different branch of early mammals, overturning an interpretation that was based largely on fossil teeth.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
"We've spent £17,000 on fuel per year over the last couple of years," said Chris MacDonald, chair of the Bristol branch.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
They went back and cut the straightest branch they could find from one of the trees.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
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"It barely brought any rain, it was mostly wind," Victor Garcia, a resident of Puerto San Carlos, told AFP as he gathered branches that had fallen on his house.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
This week, Emirati officials banned local branches of Bank Melli Iran—the Islamic Republic’s biggest commercial lender—from conducting transactions involving Iran.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
They are among 34 customers who told the BBC that they also bought cars from Trade Centre UK branches in Coventry, Rochdale, Rotherham and Wales but are still locked in a battle for refunds.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Each of the military branches has its own circular plate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
He tips his head back, looking up at the branches above our heads and the wide blue sky peeking through between them.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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Other automakers have branched out in similar ways in recent decades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
EssilorLuxottica has also branched into hearing correction, with its Nuance Audio integrating hearing aids into eyeglasses frames.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
I’ll always prefer Mom’s barbecued chicken, fried chicken and French fries, but I have branched out, trying an array of new, relatively tamer foods, ranging from albacore tuna to zucchini.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026
"You can imagine the whole system as a finely branched power grid that becomes increasingly damaged with age: connections break down and currents stall," explains Dr. Maria Ermolaeva, the study's lead author.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026
We received baskets of candy until we grew older and the Easter Bunny branched out.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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But it also means branching into new “AI adopters,” like companies in the transportation and real-estate sectors.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
The foundation runs a World War II educational program, taking Wantagh students to a museum in New Orleans about that conflict, before branching into 9/11 education.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
Described by RAU as a "time-capsule record of biodiversity in the UK", researchers said the possibilities are endless, branching out into climate change, habitat management, genetics, and much more.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
“Stick to the basics at first before branching out.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
True, the passive phrase itself is heavier than the active, with four levels of branching rather than three, but it comes at the end, where there’s nothing else to keep track of.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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