candle
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The death of 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal on Wednesday drove a "stunned" Lopez to lay a candle on Thursday at an improvised shrine in the Spanish capital's Puerta del Sol square, the epicentre of the protests.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
In a statement released by his office on Wednesday afternoon, Netanyahu said he had lit a memorial candle commemorating every victim of 7 October.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Other images were less place-centric—an MRI, a candle, a horde of monarch butterflies, the storm of the Señora’s tears.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
It’s your job to manage both and make sure that you are not burning the candle at both ends.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
She lit the candle and set it on the coffee table, across from the mirror, before perching on it herself, sitting cross-legged and sliding on the ring.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
LA28 plans to announce partnerships with a number of other local entities that will make a wide variety of items, such as stationery, toys, hats, magnets, candles and pet accessories.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Get drinks on ice, arrange the soups for serving, light the candles and start the music.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
Yet with the bull market ready to blow out four candles this week, surging Treasury yields have been raising doubts on Wall Street about how much further stocks can climb from here.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 11, 2026
Another march is scheduled for Thursday evening from Sol to Maricarmen's former home in the upmarket Retiro neighbourhood, where candles and flowers have also been left by mourners.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
After the trick-or-treating, we went back to our apartment, and we sat on the floor with candles all around and split up our candy.
From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff
Unlike with most poultry, the eggs cannot be candled to check on the embryo growing inside for the 52 days between laying and hatching.
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2022
Early on, she candled eggs for a poultry farm while he played “frisbee on the green.”
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 20, 2018
If an egghead is candled, what shows up?
From Time Magazine Archive
Many so-so lines are salvaged by the neat professional finesse of Grant, Day and Meadows, with Gig Young contributing an amusing portrayal of a financial adviser who is having his head candled.
From Time Magazine Archive
Separators should be carefully "candled" — placed in front of a light and looked through.
From The Automobile Storage Battery Its Care And Repair by Otto A. Witte
Unclear, though certificates on the walls congratulate her on her mastery of ear candling and reiki.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2015
His wife, when not mothering their five boys and three girls, spent grueling days standing at a local produce house as she examined poultry eggs under a light - what they call candling.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 2, 2014
Sam Cruz, a 12-year IRS employee who works in candling, said he finds something left behind maybe two or three times for every thousand envelopes.
From Washington Post
Women go to the candler for an afternoon--the average candling takes about an hour--of relaxation.
From Time Magazine Archive
If you are in doubt about the quality of any eggs you are candling break a few of them into a dish and examine them.
From Every Step in Canning by Grace Viall Gray
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