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One worst-case fear is that debris could set off a chain reaction of crashes, leaving parts of low-Earth orbit unusable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Average restaurant visits per location at the roughly 400-unit chain grew 5.8% in the first half of this year, reversing a decline in 2024, according to location data firm Placer.ai.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
She says the campaign with Jenner is one example of how the chain is trying to tap into a younger audience, adding that if the promotion succeeds "maybe that younger audience sticks".
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Defence Minister Luke Pollard said the government was building a "more resilient, homegrown defence supply chain and ensuring our armed forces receive the pioneering equipment that can give them the edge on the battlefield".
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
They remained standing, out of the reach of the golden chain.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
"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
Fast food chains like McDonald's, Chick-fil-A, and Taco Bell have launched fruit-based so-called refreshers and coffee-adjacent options and other non-caffeine cold drinks aimed at the same audience.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
“Better to do that by allowing them to access banking and supply chains through our country than not,” he said of the Emirates’ thinking on Iran.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
But by the 2000s, more people were shopping online or at rival sportswear chains or department stores.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
She raised her drakon-bone sword over the base of the chains.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
Searching for "secret information" that could help it cheat the evaluation, the OpenAI system "chained together multiple attack vectors, including using stolen credentials".
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 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
By contrast, the German Reich was unfortunate in its ally Austria-Hungary during World War I; one observer likened it to “being chained to a rotting corpse.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
When the last, who was Sigmund, was brought out and chained, Signy had devised a way to save him.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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
