contracting
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Lancaster County Coroner Stephen Diamantoni said the underlying condition made the infant especially vulnerable to severe illness after contracting measles.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
Two unvaccinated people died after contracting the highly contagious disease, the state health department said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
When making a large purchase or contracting for a service, you might feel shy about asking the seller to lower their price, but it is a good habit to get into.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
Karp reserved his sharpest language for what he described as sovereignty in name only: contracting non-US firms to deploy American or Chinese closed models.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
On June 1, six months after Fermi’s achievement, Seaborg met with executives of DuPont, which had been cajoled by Groves into contracting to build a pilot plutonium separation plant at Oak Ridge.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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