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Asking the public not to purchase anything Harry Potter related, they said, is “the most we feel that we can do for our community.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Vance’s efforts to seem hip come across as forced, as if he has never met a fellow millennial and can only approximate their lingo and cadence from reading old magazine reviews of movies like “Clueless.”
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026
Together, they can focus on objects across deep space and help researchers work out how planets and stars form and galaxies evolve, and study other space phenomena.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Facilities will be able to comply with the new rules in three ways: They can make sure water coming off their property meets pollution limits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
A brain "address" can specify left or right hemisphere, the lobe, the nearest ridge or fold, and whether the location is on top or bottom, inside or out, and front or back.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
The floors of the towers are still littered with empty cans of European-made spray paint made for graffiti artists, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
"Buckets and watering cans can still be used, and there are exemptions, including where water use is necessary for health and safety reasons or for customers with severe mobility problems."
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
After surveying his pyramids of cans, arrayed spices and stacks of noodle soup, they issued him a 2,500-euro fine, equivalent to around $2,866.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Admins now zoom in on aluminum cans to cross-reference dent patterns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Ma came home carrying two cans and a couple of brushes.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
State officials estimated the costs at $4,100 per acre of paved or impermeable surface for those that decide to help fund local stormwater projects, and said the costs for other options could be considerably higher.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Reynolds said it could be "weeks or more" before the wildfire was finally extinguished.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
“By the time a final decision is made, it could look completely different,” Lewis said in an email.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Dr George Dransfield, an astrophysicist and Sky at Night presenter, said the decision could see the UK "lose our place in these big international scientific collaborations".
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
“We could leave now,” Father insists, stepping closer.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
The story of the “Wooden Horse,” as most translations call it, gets only brief references in Homer’s epic, cited in passing as an example of Odysseus’s cunning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
In the aughts, Chase also appeared in more than 20 episodes of the Fox sitcom “Oliver Beene” and more than 30 episodes of HBO’s Emmy-nominated Mormon family drama “Big Love” as cunning teenager Rhonda Volmer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Marsh described Scatchard as "devious, cunning and untruthful".
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
He is cunning, not intelligent — something he unwittingly proves every time he claims that passing a basic mental competency test shows his brilliance.
From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2026
All bears are agile, cunning, and immensely strong, and they are always hungry.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
We had one event in a fraternity house backyard in Virginia, we had events in Mexico City and Montreal … canned food drives, blood drives or, you know, register to vote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
He’s pretty strong, so he’s capable of lifting lots of canned goods, but he’ll have the whole football team on hand for support.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
"The demand for water and canned goods has increased since this morning amid fears that services or supply chains will be affected," Kuwait resident Hassan Rayan, 61, said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026
Distillers might be reluctant to come up with a rival product because canned cocktails have lower profit margins than large bottles of spirits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
They could only buy essentials at the grocery store, like milk, bread, and canned soup.
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
Although these parasites had been killed during the canning process and would not harm consumers, they hold valuable scientific information.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 1, 2026
Chicken of the Sea International is studying whether the ruling could help revive production at a Georgia canning plant that relies on imported tuna.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026
Guinness 0.0 products are canned in the Belfast factory while the Runcorn facility carries out the kegging, bottling and canning of Guinness Draught products.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025
Tinned fish has been around for centuries, dating all the way back to the late 1700s when canning and preserving foods were budding inventions.
From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2025
Madame Manec clatters around in the cellar and hauls up canning supplies.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
