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column

[kol-uhm] / ˈkɒl əm /




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I asked my son to give me a quote for this column, but I couldn’t find him, because that urchin was off fishing with an urchin.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

But your strategy may not be available to everyone reading this column.

From MarketWatch Aug. 12, 2026

Smoke swallows civilization while sparks fall around the baroque column of the Fuente de los Luceros.

From Salon Aug. 11, 2026

Mark Joseph Stern: In your column at the end of this most recent term, you distinguished between the Supreme Court’s power to say what the law is after Marbury v.

From Slate Aug. 10, 2026

Several times the column halted while numbers were read out—names were never used at Ravensbruck.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

So there are two columns of tickers — the fund’s ticker and the U.S. ticker, which might be the same.

From MarketWatch Aug. 12, 2026

Eventually, he said, he was contributing weekly columns to Sp!ts, a free commuter newspaper in Amsterdam, chronicling his growing infatuation with the sport.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 9, 2026

Up in the hills above the Roman columns of the ancient site of Sebastia, in the occupied West Bank, are olive fields that have been cultivated for generations by Palestinian families.

From BBC Aug. 8, 2026

SL Green said it had previously identified the inconsistency with the steel columns and was working on updating its design plans to later file with the city.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

I scramble behind one of the columns in the room, wincing at my aching ankle.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer




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