call
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Her lawyers repeated a call for Tennessee Governor Bill Lee to commute Pike's sentence to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
Compared with the birds in Madmaheshwar valley, the monal in Chopta also produced shorter call durations likely to cut through low-frequency human noise from traffic and tourist footfall.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
The next call came from then-President Joe Biden.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
The series is the couple’s prescribed antidote to the social media doomscrolling they call “internet indigestion.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
“The British call it a mouth organ. We call it a harmonica. Hold it like this.”
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
The new research calls that assumption into question.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
The online retail platform says its customers data may have been accessed after hackers sent what the Metro calls a "threatening notification"
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Amid growing global calls for control, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said last month that the AI rules put "Europe in the position to shape global efforts."
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
While the C$5.7 billion price tag is higher, Hulshof calls the cost inevitable “given it is one of the last remaining thermal plays and arguably carries a scarcity premium.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
“Or my larynx is about to fall out. I don’t think I’ve ever connected so many calls in one night in my life.”
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
The Cryogenian Period began around 720 million years ago, when massive glaciers expanded across the planet during episodes commonly called Snowball Earth.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
The Armed Forces Commissioner, Polly Miller-Perkins, who is carrying out her first investigation in the role, has called the allegations "absolutely appalling".
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
She called him a “genius” and a “prince” who would put his jacket around her shoulders to protect her from the cold while they shot scenes on the waterfront in Hoboken, N.J.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
While publishers “exhibited a strong preference for. . . what might be called ‘highbrow works,’ ” Ms. Manning observes, the favorites among enlisted men ran more to “westerns, mysteries, stories of adventure and page-turning fiction.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Marie is founding a Catholic organization called Friends of the Lepers.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
President Xi Jinping said this summer that AI should be "always under human control," calling for more "laws and regulations, technological monitoring, early warning, and emergency response systems."
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
Tracy, now 48 and a farmer herself, and other domestic abuse survivors are calling on governments to better support victims in rural areas.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Seafarers on nearby vessels heard the warning but appeared confused about which ship the U.S. was calling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
For one thing, the administration itself stops surprisingly short of calling for a categorical end to deference to the Sentencing Commission’s commentary.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026
“Have you tried calling her ma?” she asks.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
