C
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An earlier version of this article incorrectly said the Series C round lifts Sentra’s market valuation to more than $260 million.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
Vitamin C is an antioxidant that helps protect cells from damage, while fiber contributes to healthy digestion and may help with blood sugar regulation, weight management, and cardiovascular wellness.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
Lose the first game at Hampden and the nightmare scenario of finishing bottom - and suffering relegation to League C - is also still a possibility.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
From 6:00 to 9:00 p.m., the celebration will continue at the R. Jack Mercer Community Bandstand at Euclid Avenue and C Street, where community members can gather for a Día de los Muertos procession.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026
Your songwriter has written the solo as it sounds on his keyboard, so you have a C part.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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Experiments using cancer models have provided additional evidence of vitamin C's possible protective effects.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
The buzz: Though lacking the sizzle of Brazil-Morocco, Group C’s other first-day matchup is no less important.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
In high school, I received mostly B’s and C’s, and I didn’t study for the SATs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025
"They were put in a situation where they were scammed," Christophe Bruschi, Joseph C's lawyer, told the BBC.
From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2024
The woman scans my transcript—mostly C's bracketed by a couple of B's and D's.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
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Erin Bleakley's plans were ruined after she was awarded Bs, Cs and Ds in her highers in 2020 after an emergency marking system was introduced.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
Only eight banks got Bs, while the majority got Cs; 36 got Ds.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 27, 2026
The 16-year-old hopes to get a minimum of five Cs, including maths and Welsh, to study for a Level 3 in agricultural engineering at Coleg Glynllifon.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2025
Learning this and informed by modelling, the team set about pain-staking analysis that saw Utsunomiya, graduate student Kanako Miyazaki, and the team finally image radioactive Cs atoms.
From Science Daily ● May 15, 2024
The interlocking Cs glinted in the overhead lights.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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Beyond consent, the other two c’s, credit and compensation, have their own challenges, as illustrated even now with the high cost of litigation regarding infringements of copyright or patents.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 7, 2023
“It hasn’t rained in months,” she said, her Tuscan Italian full of soft g’s and c’s.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2021
On the other hand I can always tell you that I lost a spelling bee to Juanita Meyers in the fifth grade; the word was necessary, I misspelled it with two "c's."
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2016
Hard consonants - k's, d's, hard c's and hard g's - gave me hell.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2010
Double up on the c’s and the s’s.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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A contestant in the Season 3 premiere lays out her "four cs" theory of success: "courage, creativity, cash and celebrity."
From Time Magazine Archive
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In early Latin, cs was often written for x.
From Latin Pronunciation A Short Exposition of the Roman Method by Harry Thurston Peck
Quintilian remarks that x is not an indispensable letter in Latin, implying that cs and gs could take its place.
From Latin Pronunciation A Short Exposition of the Roman Method by Harry Thurston Peck
The grammarians say that the character axis a monogram representing cs or gs.
From Latin Pronunciation A Short Exposition of the Roman Method by Harry Thurston Peck
L cs - b4† In both notations the moves are often given in a tabular form, thus:— 1.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various
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