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Get those feelings on the table, so you can both see what you’re dealing with.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
“So making a living that way can seem normal.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
"I know we've been through some ups and downs. But if we look forward, build off this win, come back Thursday night and get another big one, we can make something special for this city."
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
You can do things separately — whether he’s spending time with his kids or you’re going away with your girlfriends.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
All the doctors in San Francisco can offer Phineas are theories, useless drugs, and nursing instructions.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
Bottles of oil, packets of salt and a few tin cans lie among the debris.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
He’s most famous for taking cylindrical soup cans and making them flat, but he also saw celebrity culture coming.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
Beachcombers scooped up artifacts including beer cans from the early 20th century.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
The quality of the lifejackets on board was also "completely inadequate" and the fire risk was "considerable" due to how close batteries were to fuel cans, the NCA added.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
It would slash through the bags and boxes, bite through the cans.
From "I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964" by Lauren Tarshis
You could tell him, “Would you like to take a vacation to Bali? If not, would you mind if I went alone?”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
The report estimates that the deduction could improve oil producers’ cash flow per share by 6% on average.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
And the diesel ban could spill over into the price of other products.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
He wanted to see who could keep them steady, they recalled, to help him with a mysterious task.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Hell, she could make pancakes in the shape of the devil himself and I’d eat them.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Shenanigan and her crew must use all their wit, nerve and cunning they possess to discover a killer in a world where everyone, it seems, is running her own con.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Telemachus was so young when his father left for the Trojan wars that he doesn't remember him - except through the already mythical stories told about his exploits, cunning and bravery.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
He is cunning, not intelligent — something he unwittingly proves every time he claims that passing a basic mental competency test shows his brilliance.
From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2026
Hatcher — a Pomo shape-shifter who dodges prejudice by passing as Mexican in the novel — is a thorny protagonist, often cunning, scheming and unforgiving.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
He is more cunning, subtler, trickier than any god or giant.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
"There is little difference nutritionally between canned and fresh food in terms of macronutrients, like carbohydrates, protein, fats, and fibre, as well as fat-soluble vitamins, like vitamin A and E, and minerals," she says.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
He’s a partial owner of the canned yerba mate brand Mateina, but he “loves it without bias.”
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
It wants us to stockpile canned food and drinking water, strengthen our civic resilience, and plan for the possibility of war.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
The pain was particularly acute at Nortera Foods, which the tribunal identified as the biggest processor of canned food by a significant margin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
I carried a basket filled with two Mason jars of Uncle Chester’s canned wild plums to share at the after-service dinner.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
Meanwhile, Bumble Bee Foods plans to lay off 197 workers on Nov. 19 and estimates that it will lay off another 36 workers when the fish canning facility finally closes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Just this week, Disney announced sizable layoffs under the guise of “streamlining operations,” canning a large percentage of Marvel’s award-winning visual effects team that has been with the studio for years.
From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2026
Although these parasites had been killed during the canning process and would not harm consumers, they hold valuable scientific information.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 1, 2026
Guinness 0.0 products are canned in the Belfast factory while the Runcorn facility carries out the kegging, bottling and canning of Guinness Draught products.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025
Madame Manec clatters around in the cellar and hauls up canning supplies.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
