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chapter

[chap-ter] / ˈtʃæp tər /


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The year isn’t over, and a new chapter of the nest is already being written.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

Steinbeck never points to a definitive incitement to explain her behavior, instead writing, “I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents” to open a chapter devoted to Cathy’s backstory.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

A chapter of the fraternity was closed in 2024 and remains barred from campus.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

“Animate” includes a fascinating chapter on clinical lycanthropy, a psychiatric condition in which the sufferer believes that he or she is an animal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

“This action closes a chapter in the American experience.”

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

She added that Archer was "not without flaw", but that "friends will recall him as an irrepressible life force through all the many differing chapters of his life".

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

The organization, which has 2,000 members, has 28 chapters, up from nine when it launched in 2023.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

Woven into the narratives are interludes—some are standalone chapters, others are lengthy parenthetical additions—that flash forward to reveal the anticlimaxes of the characters’ latter years and, as Ms. Li views it, their irrelevance to posterity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

One of your book’s chapters is titled “Be the Adult in the Room.”

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026

After sailing through a few chapters of my book, I took a break to slow the story a bit.

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia




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