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Ottawa at the end of August also announced counter-tariffs on select U.S. goods.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
The model is going through final evaluations, with early access available to select parties.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
The UK Health and Social Care select committee is currently examining how physical activity can support healthy aging, with strength training forming part of the discussion.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
While this is Wakefield's first final and the same for many of their players, like coach Powell a select few have sampled the unique atmosphere of Old Trafford for Super League's showpiece event.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
To do this, you must select “Declare This Book” before you download its clue.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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Some Gerans include a seeker guidance package that allows the onboard computer to guide the drone in the final flight phase, after a human operator initially selects the target.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026
The vaccine analyzes a patient’s tumor, selects up to 34 mutations as targets and trains the immune system to recognize them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Should Airbus opt for this type of engine while Boeing selects a more conventional architecture, CFM believes it can cater for both giants of the air.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
Facing mounting pressure from his own MPs and cabinet, he will remain in office while the Labour Party selects its next leader.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
Now Milton selects an egg from the bowl.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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Four games into his 14th NFL season — all spent with the team that selected him with the fourth overall pick in the 2013 draft — Johnson has decided that he’s done.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
He was selected to oversee what remained of the Morale Branch’s library program, which had grown largely stagnant since the mid-1920s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
The migrants appear to have specifically selected decorated pottery from their homeland for use as grog.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
That’s an age that was selected back when life expectancy was significantly shorter than it is today.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
When a severe selection pressure is applied—a rise in temperature or a sharp restriction of nutrients—organisms with the “fittest” phenotype are selected.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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This mission guided her through the process of selecting works by famous artists from SFMOMA’s collection to contextualize RM’s pieces from lesser-known but equally important names.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
Some of the new privacy tools include selecting who can see a child's profile photo and who can add them to groups.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
A battlefield dominated by fully autonomous drones capable of selecting and engaging targets without human intervention sounds like a dystopian sci-fi plot.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026
Higher-order organisms have developed a way of triaging that information, selecting what is relevant to our safety and our survival, and making instant decisions about how to allocate our resources and our attention.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
I quit selecting certain of my New York brothers and giving them money to go and lay groundwork for new mosques in other cities—because slighting remarks were being made about “Malcolm’s ministers.”
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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