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Corrections & Amplifications The Series C round lifts Sentra’s total funding to date to more than $260 million.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

Vitamin C is an antioxidant that helps protect cells from damage, while fiber contributes to healthy digestion and may help with blood sugar regulation, weight management, and cardiovascular wellness.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

Lose the first game at Hampden and the nightmare scenario of finishing bottom - and suffering relegation to League C - is also still a possibility.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

From 6:00 to 9:00 p.m., the celebration will continue at the R. Jack Mercer Community Bandstand at Euclid Avenue and C Street, where community members can gather for a Día de los Muertos procession.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026

The keys that are most distant from C major, with six sharps or six flats, are on the opposite side of the circle.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

Network Rail said the work was an important part of a plan to support Sizewell C's transport strategy of 60% of all its materials being delivered by rail and sea.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

Experiments using cancer models have provided additional evidence of vitamin C's possible protective effects.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

The buzz: Though lacking the sizzle of Brazil-Morocco, Group C’s other first-day matchup is no less important.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

In high school, I received mostly B’s and C’s, and I didn’t study for the SATs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025

Figure 1.19: When a sharp sign appears in the C space in the key signature, all C's are sharp unless marked as accidentals.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

Only eight banks got Bs, while the majority got Cs; 36 got Ds.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 27, 2026

"And by now, they would have found them. There would be plan Bs and plan Cs, to make sure that we have reduced this exposure to the US."

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2025

Alleah got three Cs, three Bs and an A, allowing her to go to Bridgend College to study performing arts.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2024

A significant amount of radioactive Cs was released from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi reactors in particulate form.

From Science Daily ● May 15, 2024

Some Os and Qs and Cs long and narrow.

From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia

Beyond consent, the other two c’s, credit and compensation, have their own challenges, as illustrated even now with the high cost of litigation regarding infringements of copyright or patents.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 7, 2023

“It hasn’t rained in months,” she said, her Tuscan Italian full of soft g’s and c’s.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2021

On the other hand I can always tell you that I lost a spelling bee to Juanita Meyers in the fifth grade; the word was necessary, I misspelled it with two "c's."

From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2016

Hard consonants - k's, d's, hard c's and hard g's - gave me hell.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2010

Double up on the c’s and the s’s.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

A contestant in the Season 3 premiere lays out her "four cs" theory of success: "courage, creativity, cash and celebrity."

From Time Magazine Archive

In early Latin, cs was often written for x.

From Latin Pronunciation A Short Exposition of the Roman Method by Harry Thurston Peck

L cs - b4† In both notations the moves are often given in a tabular form, thus:— 1.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various

X. x, 2, 9; —— = cs and gs, 32. -x, decl. of monosyllables in, preceded by one or more cons.,

From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett

The grammarians say that the character axis a monogram representing cs or gs.

From Latin Pronunciation A Short Exposition of the Roman Method by Harry Thurston Peck


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