contract
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This followed uproar in the EU after Spain's Ministry of the Interior awarded Chinese tech giant Huawei a €12.3m contract to store and manage sensitive judicial wiretap data last year.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Raytheon said it was awarded a contract valued at up to $24.4 billion to supply Standard Missile-6 interceptors to the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Enerflex stock rises sharply after it secures a contract to build generators for a data center developer.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
He could sign the largest contract of any pitcher in major league history this fall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
And maybe an endorsement contract might require me to show up at a certain number of sponsored events or to tape a certain number of TV commercials to air during the Olympics and afterward.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
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Both main crude contracts edged up to extend the previous day's rally with Washington and Tehran deadlocked on ending the crisis and unable to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
That means “persistence is critical,” with a sustained increase in prices more likely to work its way through contracts, inventories and supply chains into consumer prices, they said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
Cohen also said 25% of her department’s contracts have gone to small businesses owned by women or minorities, a goal set by a 2023 state law.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Front-month Brent crude for December delivery rose toward $100 a barrel, with the contracts adding 1.4% to $99.36 a barrel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Everything is in private, we deal like family, among ourselves, without chits or contracts.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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Kate also contracted scabies from Paul and described it as "dreadful".
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Two brothers who contracted meningitis within a year of each other say they are lucky to be alive.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
The energy company’s diverse portfolio of renewables offers positive exposure to gas and power prices, commodity price volatility, and long-term contracted sources of earnings and cash flows, the analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Private-label products, which are made by contracted manufacturers for retailers that sell them in stores under their own names and logos, are steadily extending their reach into the consumer packaged-goods market.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
Another pulse of blood released itself and I contracted my stomach muscles in alarm.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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An opponent of the measure, Rodriguez said the Board of Public Works was established to provide independent review of city contracting, with commissioners’ decisions made in public meetings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The last step is contracting skin and stimulating collagen with BodyTite, a radio-frequency treatment in which a tiny probe is inserted into the arm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
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
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
This is the direction of time in which the universe is expanding rather than contracting.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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