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[kawrs] / kɔrs /






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Of course, they are not billionaires like Oprah or celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow or Reese Witherspoon, who leveraged their pre-existing stardom into profitable imprimaturs in wellness and publishing.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

The head coach can’t be responsible for all that’s happening in the course of a football game.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

Of course, it could have been different had Kane scored his penalty.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Parents have long challenged their children’s identities, of course.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

There were, of course, fungi one should never eat.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

The vocational GCSEs will be designed to allow teenagers to progress at 16 to studying similar courses at college, including the new V-levels which colleges are teaching from autumn 2026, and T-levels.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Caterpillar’s giant yellow dump trucks have been running autonomously on closed-loop courses in mines and quarries for several years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

At the national level, direct data-center water consumption is roughly 3% of what golf courses use.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

The Finnish military also runs a series of courses annually for leaders of society - MPs, government ministers, the CEOs of private enterprises and public utilities, the health service, even NGOs and the churches.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

New courses on hospital nursing and preliminary anatomy began.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

“Antisemitism,” she contends, “has coursed throughout American history.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025

Overflowing rivers coursed through villages, sweeping away homes, roads and bridges and triggering landslides.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2025

It's been three years now, but the 35-year-old school teacher has no trouble recalling the "pure shock" that coursed through when she and partner Kris Ventura, 33, opened the page.

From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2025

It took a split second for the instincts of Principal Laura Gutierrez to kick in when an earthquake coursed through Aldama Elementary School in Highland Park as she stood outside supervising recess.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2024

It was as if their magic coursed through their hands, enveloping them in a warm glow.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

But in one weird way, Schlittler is different from all the other major-league pitchers who have lightning coursing through their veins: He actually uses it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

Once famous for a greasy pole-climbing competition that would grant the winner a piglet, past games have included horse racing, hare coursing and shooting.

From BBC ● May 30, 2026

Cook, who built Apple into a colossus with influence coursing through geopolitics, pop culture and the daily lives of billions of people, said he would step down as chief executive on Sept. 1.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026

But now Nvidia’s stock is hot again, rising 2.4% in Friday’s session and coursing toward its eighth session in a row of gains.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 10, 2026

The direwolf could sense the warm blood coursing beneath the elk’s shaggy hide.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin




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