contract
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The topic was raised on Torre’s podcast by a person identified as an “anonymous high-level source under contract for Intuit Dome.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
SINGAPORE—A Singaporean real-estate billionaire is suing Brookfield Asset Management over alleged breaches of contract and confidentiality related to a proposed joint venture to buy industrial properties in the Southeast Asian city-state.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Araujo is under contract until 2031 but only made 11 league starts last season, with Gerard Martin and Pau Cubarsi emerging as their preferred central defensive pairing.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
Palantir closed over $2 billion of U.S. commercial total contract value in the second quarter, a 153% jump relative to a year before.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
Everyone’s coven had to be sealed by a magical contract, to contain the magic and the witches in their own circles.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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Both main contracts rose around one percent on Friday.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
Back in 2021, activists had successfully lobbied the state of New Jersey to prohibit municipal and county governments as well as private facilities from entering into new contracts with ICE to house immigration detainees.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
Later that month, ICE awarded multimillion dollar no-bid contracts to two companies tasked with taking over claims processing: Acentra Health for healthcare services and Ardent Group for pharmacy services.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Home builders fell after online realtor Redfin estimated that pending-home sales around the U.S. fell to a five-month low in the latest weekly tally of sales contracts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
They formed a union and fought for proper contracts, health benefits, and protections against arbitrary firing, and along with that came a push for fairness in hiring.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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Payroll employment contracted by 23,000 in July, well below Wall Street economists’ forecasts for a gain of 83,000.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
Because the parasitic disease was contracted from contaminated produce out of state, California is not counted as being a part of the current outbreak.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
One of O'Neill's most trusted lieutenants, he's contracted until 2030 but reports have suggested a potential return to Spain, so just how important is he to Celtic?
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
In a contracted media landscape with fewer places to pitch, its odds of landing in front of audiences on a major platform decline even further.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
It was, in reality, the result of multiple and rare diseases contracted on his innumerable trips around the world.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Wall Street doesn’t expect the vaccine to generate meaningful sales until the 2027-28 flu season because commercial contracting for seasonal flu shots takes place earlier in the year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Such key periods are referred to as the “Cone of Silence” and meant to limit contact with vendors that could influence or appear to influence district contracting decisions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
The most recent awards call for contractors to help the agency geolocate individuals labeled as “extremists,” compile reports on individuals and cross-reference information with government databases, contracting documents show.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
These are examples of a Big Tech hyperscaler contracting directly for power.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
Only later did I realize that the true cause of this malady was hard, merciless shivering, my muscles contracting as mechanically as if by electric impulse, all night long, every night.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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