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Starbucks named Andrew Corner, formerly of Nike, as senior vice president of supply chain operations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Where rapper MGK, best known as Machine Gun Kelly, set off a hand-held metal detector with his chain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
The analysts also wrote that its supply chain management – which they said is driving share gains in each market the company operates in – creates a clear competitive advantage.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
The chain is just one of Tesco's restaurant partners.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
The entire food chain of intermediaries in the subprime mortgage market was duping itself with the same trick, using the foreshortened, statistically meaningless past to predict the future.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Research has found that temperatures only slightly above freezing can be more effective than warmer conditions for assembling complex chains of amino acids.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026
Retailers are narrowing their product selections to cut costs and simplify supply chains amid higher import, transportation and storage costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
The three biggest theater chains in the U.S.—AMC, Regal and Cinemark—have all endorsed the Paramount-Warner combination.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
"One day I realized -- if this polymer is so gooey and so soft, why don't I just keep breaking the polymer chains down to smaller segments?" said Liu.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026
Annabeth dove for the chains holding the Doors of Death.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
The Brick is one of many programs and gadgets that have hit the market to help people who feel chained to their devices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
Nobody knows how, since the bell’s been chained up for such a long time that the metal links have rusted.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026
Boxes are typically bolted into concrete or chained in place.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026
"Every day we get reports of, horses, dogs, pigs, goats, everything. So many animals being either stranded, abandoned, locked up and chained," Kenny said.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026
I don’t try to get near ’em, ’cause a chained dog can be mean.
From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Adding eight gigawatts of new demand to a 2.4 gigawatt system is like chaining an M1 Abrams tank to a Toyota Camry and expecting the two vehicles to drive calmly down the highway together.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
You and your husband have gone from wanting to sell this house to actually chaining yourself to the house and the future occupants.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 21, 2026
Overloading can happen in two ways - one is known as "daisy chaining".
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025
“They were chaining the steps in behind us,” Seals said, “so we didn’t have a way out, really.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2024
Short of chaining him to his side, Luke had done everything he could to keep Toby from making the mistake he seemed intent on making.
From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss
