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As a result, apprenticeships are moving up the education value chain.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
At the privately-held salad chain Chopt, customer traffic on Friday was 14.3% lower than what has been typical for the chain on a Friday this year.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
Laurie Schalow, Chipotle’s chief corporate affairs and food-safety officer, said in a brief statement that the chain was tracking the investigation, adding: “At this time, we don’t believe the ingredients we source are associated.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
The chain, which has doubled its store count in the last three years, doesn’t open a location with fewer than 25 seats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
They only knew that they needed to get water into the reactor core to prevent the chain reaction from spiraling out of control.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
Taylor Farms supplies several major restaurant and grocery chains — including Chipotle, which has said it doesn’t serve shredded iceberg lettuce and that its other greens are not from Mexico.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
“We need to focus much more on having shorter supply chains that can even sustain a war,” said Morten Brandtzæg, chief executive of Norwegian-Finnish defense company Nammo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
"The demand for water and canned goods has increased since this morning amid fears that services or supply chains will be affected," Kuwait resident Hassan Rayan, 61, said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026
Downtown has totally changed - small businesses were replaced by bespoke steakhouses, high-end retail chains and stores selling custom cowboy hats for tourists.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Pet pulled on her chains and threw hay and sawdust over her back with her gray trunk.
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
"You were not chained to a door or something, right? You were not locked up in a basement. The chains were less obvious, but they were there."
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 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
AI also has helped accelerate the microshift movement by taking over lower-level tasks that keep people chained to their desks during specific hours, such as sorting and responding to emails.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
She volunteers with a group that visits Skid Row, provides supplies to the people there, and tries to rescue animals who live chained up in abysmal conditions.
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2026
The men who’d been chained had to stay with us, because they had to get rid of the fetters on their ankles before they could go anywhere.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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
He said chaining swings had become a trope used by people who don't understand island culture.
From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2024
“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
“We’re going to reenact the story of Our Lady of Chains. We’re taking her over to the honey house and chaining her in there for the night.”
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
