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She had needed to go to the toilet during class and Abah had intercepted her in the school gardens and asked her to accompany him to his house which was on the premises.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
The clearest exception was from academia, where a scientist had sued her supervisor alleging that he “deleted her name and presented a paper as his own in a class he taught.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The peptides are routinely used in “stacks”; chosen at random, with arbitrarily chosen doses; and two drugs from the same class may be included for reasons that defy explanation.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
Two weeks into his brother’s trial, Collins was in class when their sister Chloe picked him up at the elementary school and took him to their grandmother’s house.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
She said it again to the class when Jessica was out of the room after lunch.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
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We need to maintain our staffing, but, you know, we’re also having new recruit classes all the time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
In the following months, Novack plans to take classes in landscape design, visual arts and film production.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
He’s been so rocked by recent tech layoffs over the past few years that he began taking part-time nursing classes at a local community college.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
Linda Crawford started coming to the classes in St Ouen's Parish Hall nine months ago.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
He’s admitted that had he taken his classes as seriously as lunchtime foosball, his grades might’ve been a lot better.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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But they were later classed as carcinogenic, banned worldwide, and are seen today as the first "forever chemicals" - which are building up in the environment, threatening wildlife and human health.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
In 2019, about 10% of pupils at English state schools were classed as "persistently absent", meaning they missed at least 10% of classes.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
But her experience reflects the challenges facing many young people who are classed as Neet.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Only 11.8% of his passes were classed as line-breaking that season and 22.7% travelled forward - both below the average for central and defensive midfielders.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Reductio ad absurdum, by this token, would be classed as a figure of thought, whereas isocolon—a sequence of phrases the same length—or alliteration would be figures of speech.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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The locations, especially as photographed here by cinematographer Leo Zhang, make for a crafty way of classing up a low-budget feature.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
It’s not specified in the script but I think she comes from rural Illinois or something and she’s created this affect, this mid-Atlantic accent as a way of classing herself up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2024
But that doesn't mean this falls outside the classing system.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2023
Even though they're a sturdy, workman's shoe, they have a knack for quickly classing up any golf outfit, pairing just as well with casual shorts as they do with high-end trousers.
From Golf Digest ● Sep. 12, 2017
To me, however, the book has brought about a curious settlement in my way of classing Royce.
From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by William James
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