depart
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From there, they have been able to ship oil in bulk to customers in Asia using tankers that depart south, past Yemen and that Bab El Mandeb Strait, and out into the open Indian Ocean.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
A welcome note told me the exact time to be ready to depart for my flight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
You generally must purchase this coverage within 21 days of your initial trip payment, and you can’t cancel less than two days before you’re due to depart.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
In a letter to her niece, she wrote that she felt “more like a state prisoner than anything else” and there were “certain bounds set for me which I must not depart from.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
They pay their respects in silence, and when the sun has risen, the men pick up the bier and depart; but the women stay behind, for this is the custom.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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Obviously with massive spoilers ahoy, here are eight of the biggest ways Nolan’s “Odyssey” departs from Homer’s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
According to several NBA news-breakers, including Bleacher Report’s Jake Fischer and ESPN’s Brian Windhorst, the Warriors are attempting to sign James this offseason as he departs the Lakers.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
“Hacks” departs at a transitional moment for stand-up comedy and late-night TV, much like the circumstances in which it arrived.
From Salon ● May 29, 2026
The new model departs from the look of typical Ferraris as the Italian brand's first ever five-seater, created in collaboration with the LoveFrom agency founded by former Apple design chief Sir Jony Ive.
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
The dark, dusty world departs beneath me; and I look down and see my body cast, gleaming white from my waist to my toes, the way it did when they first put it on me.
From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar
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The Liberian-flagged oil and chemical tanker Mica departed Saudi Arabia's Jazan port on Monday afternoon and also headed south before reversing course.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
In the filmmaker’s imagination, the trick of hiding Greek warriors inside a wood contraption was more believable if it looked like a waterlogged offering to a god left by a departed army.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
A top spokesperson for Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass left her administration Monday after a brief tenure, joining a growing list of communications aides who have departed over the last nine months.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
The agency’s fourth commissioner, Republican Donald Palmer, voluntarily departed the agency earlier this year to join the Heritage Foundation.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026
And so, after asking where there might be close at hand a ship where he might purchase ship forms, he departed.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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Much about the grimy parts of Burning Man is left unmentioned, leaving it up to Redditors to gripe about sanitation pile-ups departing Burners leave in nearby towns.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026
Then it was off to Western Michigan for O’Leary last season, where he was defensive coordinator — a year of experience in that job before returning to replace the departing Minter for the Chargers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
The EU also has to decide whether to extend the scheme to cover the waste sector and international flights departing from the bloc -- a move strongly opposed by airlines.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
Head of BBC Radio 1, Aled Haydn Jones, thanked the presenters who were departing the station and wished them "every success in whatever comes next".
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
As we pass through the stone walls of the town, all the last Jews departing form a procession so large we are a river of people.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
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