contracted
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Signed contract value, meanwhile, rose to $2.52 billion from $2.41 billion, with more contracted homes compared to the year-ago quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
The fabricated content appeared on X in posts impersonating legitimate French media outlets and falsely claimed that Attal had Parkinson's disease and that Philippe had contracted an illness.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
Some of these are contracted overseas, while others are seemingly settling in for the long haul.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
The houses are believed to have been used by Serco, a firm contracted to accommodate migrants, which said it was investigating allegations "relating to how address information has been made public".
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
They had indeed contracted the illness of insomnia.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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"Watership Down" by Richard Adams, Chapter 43-Epilogue
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