cardinal
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The settlement would reduce fees and allow merchants to break a cardinal rule the card companies had long insisted on: accepting all cards on a network.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
It was nearly a half decade ago that Lincoln Riley, dressed in a slick blue suit and glossy cardinal tie, stood atop the Coliseum’s rooftop deck, grinning as he gazed out across the field below.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
Some believe turning up with an iced matcha latte in hand is a cardinal sin.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
The source told AFP that "close associates" who have known the cardinal for years reported similar behaviour when he was a missionary in South America.
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
Monod and Jacob, working with Arthur Pardee, a microbial geneticist from America, discovered three cardinal principles that governed the regulation of genes.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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This included senior Catholic cardinals across Asia, the leadership of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan, members of Tibetan Buddhist civil society and the administration in exile, according to the report.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Her recent joint interview with three U.S. cardinals about Pope Leo XIV and his church’s opposition to the Iran war and Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown became a major story in April.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
She knows the neighborhood visitors — a pair of cardinals, for instance — and frets about them when we’re away.
From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2025
Leo, 70, who has a history of missionary work in Peru and is the first pope from the United States, was elected in a conclave of cardinals on May 8.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2025
For some reason, we had a great number of cardinals about the place that year.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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