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[chap-ter] / ˈtʃæp tər /


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This week, King Charles described the transatlantic slave trade as a "shameful chapter of history", scientists at Cern discovered the "zeptoverse", and lifestyle guru Martha Stewart apologised for her "screwed up" Halloween costume.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

This bag also seems to represent a new chapter for Fendi, where under Chiuri’s vision, pieces from different seasons are still interconnected — things make sense together because they’re speaking the same Fendi language.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

That’s corporate English for: The next chapter is the one you are not in.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

On Tuesday, Charles attempted a balancing act, calling out a “shameful chapter of history…that fills my heart with horror” but stopping short of a formal apology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

That house belonged to a chapter in his life that was no more, the chapter his mother had lived in.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

Mr. de la Bédoyère devotes chapters to Agrippina the Younger, Boudica and Eumachia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Proposition 38 is backed by organizations including the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research and the ALS Assn., as well as a majority of local chapters of Democratic organizations across the state.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

By placing these predictions alongside observations from the James Webb Space Telescope, the Nancy Roman Space Telescope, and other instruments, scientists hope to build a more complete picture of the universe's earliest chapters.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

The arc, Thousand-Year Blood War, has been split into four separate chapters, and the final run began this July.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

She blinked and began to skim through the chapters of his life.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee


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