busy
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US Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook will be too busy to attend a hearing ordered by President Donald Trump over mortgage fraud allegations, her lawyer said Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
The Category 3 storm added to an already busy hurricane season turbo-charged by El Niño.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
It requires being busy enough to ease the stress but not the kind of busy that drags everyone down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
I’ve walked into plenty of busy restaurants where the prevailing atmosphere suggested human error was the expectation rather than the exception, and a kiosk felt like a little gift.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
When Mom and Dad first separated, we were supposed to stay at Dad’s one night every weekend, but then Celia got too busy with high school sports and friends.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
"But I think in general terms the homelessness services are extremely busy, a lot busier... Case loads are extremely high and there are a lot more complexities with those presenting as homeless."
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Avyla said that with these major sporting events coming through town she’s worried the cost of living will continue to rise as her work gets busier and busier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
It ushered in a new kind of fun that was fresher, busier and airier than past listservs and chatrooms, the dank basements of internet interaction.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
"At the weekend it gets busier, but otherwise..." one hotel manager said, trailing off.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
Besides, it was evidently close to a road busier than any they had known.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
Not building a third runway at Heathrow Airport would be a "huge missed opportunity" for the UK, the boss of the country's busiest airport has warned.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Strategic acquirers and tech giants have deployed $17.4 billion across 92 acquisitions through the third quarter, putting M&A activity on track for its busiest year on record.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
The record-setting month comes at the end of the port’s busiest quarter in its history, from July through September.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
Even the busiest AI executives are personally involving themselves in negotiations over computing power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
And for five years we have stood waiting….Not as idle spectators, but as the busiest and most unwearied actors,” wrote suffragist Frances Dana Barker Gage in a letter to the Anti-Slavery Standard, an abolitionist newspaper.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
In addition to helping customers with their plant selections, Mejia rings them up at the register and then busies herself with tidying and organizing the shop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2025
She and care worker Michelle Rispin laugh and joke with each other, as Michelle busies herself checking Kath has the food and help she needs.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2023
Jack, meanwhile, busies his hands calling up images on his impressive machine.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2023
Instead, Akpan, who lives in Gainesville, Fla., and teaches creative writing at the University of Florida, busies himself with Ekong’s trials and tribulations in New York.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 2, 2021
Nita busies herself at the counter, making sure the containers there are lined up, though they haven’t moved since we first came in.
From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth
This is not the first time Ford has busied itself with defence work.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
That is something Mr. Nguyen experienced personally when he busied himself pursuing publication in highly ranked journals instead of writing about what he truly loved: the philosophy of games.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
Local people busied themselves with clearing away the rubble and recovering a few possessions.
From Barron's ● Mar. 7, 2026
As Garcia busied himself with “The Grateful Dead Movie,” hoping a theatrical release of October 1974 shows at the Winterland would satisfy audiences wanting to see live Dead, Lesh entered an aimless period.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2024
Tiring of field and flock, in 1768 he moved to Edinburgh, where he founded a successful business producing sal ammoniac from coal soot, and busied himself with various scientific pursuits.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Really though, you are only busying yourself and putting off the inevitable trek back home for a few more minutes.
From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2025
But with high-functioning depression, people are avoiding by busying themselves so they don’t have time to feel, and when they sit still, they feel restless and empty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2025
Murdoch was also busying himself growing his operations in the US, where he gained a foothold in 1976 with US tabloid the New York Post.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2023
Eastern time when Vande Hei, Shkaplerov and Dubrov could be seen busying themselves with procedures that needed to be completed before the hatch could be sealed.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 2022
“I know, I know, I’m sorry,” he said quickly, grabbing paper towels from the kitchen and busying himself trying to blot the bits of coffee out of the carpet.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
