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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

Beyond the improvements in blood vessel function and blood pressure, participants eating mango and avocado consumed more fiber, vitamin C, and monounsaturated fat.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

The alleged incident happened in the final minute of the Group C match in Baku.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

The social-media giant plans to launch an at-the-market program of up to $60 billion, which will be tied to the launch of its new Class C shares.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

You have no clarinet player, but one group member plays recorder, a C instrument.

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

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

I call them the three C’s: courts, crowds, and courage.

From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2025

She groaned, anxious to get into the C’s where there was a book by Marie Corelli that she had peeped into and found thrilling.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

Erin Bleakley's plans were ruined after she was awarded Bs, Cs and Ds in her highers in 2020 after an emergency marking system was introduced.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 27, 2026

The 16-year-old hopes to get a minimum of five Cs, including maths and Welsh, to study for a Level 3 in agricultural engineering at Coleg Glynllifon.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2025

However, despite abundant Cs in the microparticles, direct atomic scale imaging of radioactive Cs in the particles has proven impossible.

From Science Daily ● May 15, 2024

We climb in, folding into Cs, Madge squirming to get comfortable, her feet almost touching her head in a full circle.

From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari

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

Don’t be tempted to double up on/’s or c’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

After giving the sound of x as cs, Marius Victorinus goes on to speak of z thus:

From The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it by Frances Ellen Lord

Of these, x was equivalent to cs, while the equivalence of z is uncertain.

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

Longitudinal section of flower; v, bracteole on the peduncle; l, sepals; ls, appendage of sepal; c, petals; cs, spur of the lower petals; fs, glandular appendage of the lower stamens; a, anthers.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various

Make 7 more cs, joining between a and bs in the same manner. d.

From The Ladies' Work-Book Containing Instructions In Knitting, Crochet, Point-Lace, etc. by Unknown


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