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[kuhm] / kʌm /




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They were either fighting a war on their own soil or had just come out of one.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

"My wife died and didn't know. I never told anybody. In fact, she always complained - all your friends, when they come visit, they all have stories to tell and you never tell anything."

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

"The overall volume must come down significantly," said Sweden's Europe minister Jessica Rosencrantz.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026

It was a two-and-a-half-minute showcase of the range and charisma of the world’s biggest movie star, building to a line from a “Mission: Impossible” movie: “Everything you’ve done has come to this.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

The water that was such a blessing to me is now threatening to come back up.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

It comes after former leader Caroline Lucas said she felt the Green's structures were not protecting if from "entryism" - where people sign up to a party to try to change it.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

The risk comes as U.S. refiners are operating above 90% of capacity to help offset war-driven global supply shortages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The consumer-price index for September comes out midweek and an important survey for the Treasury market is due at noon Eastern time on Friday.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

It comes off as more conversational and slightly more chaotic than what we are used to in our own domestic courtroom procedurals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

A new Stevie Wonder song comes on, “My Cherie Amour.”

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Unlike the hundreds of leveraged and inverse ETFs that came before it, the new Roundhill ETF is designed as a long-term leveraged play on the direction of the S&P 500.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2026

But the biggest twist came immediately after our interview.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Newport Beach Utilities Director Mark Vukojevic told ABC7 that the morning tide came in 20 inches higher than what had been predicted.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

"He's been wrong about every theory he's came up with," said Rooney.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Uncle Max wasn’t fierce, either, but like others, he saved vacation days, crossed state lines, and came home for National Picnic.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Yet people who have gone “no contact” with their parents often tell me that this decision was their last resort—and a long time coming.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Tides were coming in 16 inches higher than the official prediction in Santa Monica and 14 inches higher in San Francisco as of Friday morning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

Authorities have closed dozens of metro stations, cancelled several trains coming to Delhi and shut down mobile internet temporarily around the protest site.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026

While splashy announcements have promised enormous amounts of new computing power coming soon, far less is actually available today, said Nick Frosst, co-founder of Canadian AI startup Cohere.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

A man with a shiny object on his head was coming toward them.

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios




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