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Leavitt, who gave birth to her second child in early May, announced on August 12 that she was leaving her position to devote more time to her family.

From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026

Nvidia puts only about half of its free cash flow toward buybacks, he noted, while some peers devote 75% to 100%.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

America’s leading universities devote enormous effort to preparing graduates for participation in a dynamic market economy, yet daily campus life is one of the least market-oriented environments in the world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

He was 16 and already obsessed with drums, but he says it wasn’t until that moment that he knew he wanted to devote his life making music.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

An opposite view is that benign environments leave people free from the constant struggle for existence, free to devote themselves to innovation.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Strangely, Patterson, an Emmy-nominated TV writer, devotes more attention to the plot than to the play’s psychology.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

Ms. Willetts devotes nearly an entire chapter—ostensibly on postwar nightlife in Las Vegas and Havana—to Frank Sinatra, head of America’s Rat Pack of lounge crooners and the “kingpin of ‘gentlemanly’ debauchery.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

None shines brighter than the “Wellfleet Oysterman,” to whom Thoreau devotes an entire glorious chapter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

Ironically, the film devotes so much attention to the world’s reaction to Davidson’s coprolalia that there’s scant space left over to examine its actual subject beyond correcting the ways the world sees him.

From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2026

Evans’s is a talent so exceptional that Oliver Sacks, in An Anthropologist on Mars, devotes a passage to him in a chapter on autistic savants–quickly adding that "there is no suggestion that he is autistic."

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

PC Blades, a 37-year-old father of two, was described by his family as a "beloved husband" and the "most devoted father".

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Parton penned many songs about all different aspects of her relationship with her devoted husband Carl Dean, who ran an asphalt paving business in Nashville.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

Earlier this year, Colman Domingo devoted a portion of his monologue on “Saturday Night Live” to a few things he is famous for.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

Not if you’re a newbie trying to join an intergalactic police force devoted to stopping interplanetary outrages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Even as I was still rather fanatically devoted to neatness, I was losing the battle.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

"Celebrities are voting for the Greek summer!" public broadcaster ERT said on Friday, devoting a report to these stars from across the Atlantic.

From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026

With Farage no longer an MP and fighting his own by-election in Clacton in Essex - he is hamstrung when it comes to devoting as much time and energy to Greater Manchester.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Lindsey Rae Thompson, who’s been looking for a job for several months, has been devoting at least an hour to each cover letter she crafts.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026

Apparently, the mother had shown favoritism by devoting lots of time and attention to the lucky son, taking him away for whole afternoons by himself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

Price was not the only one devoting much of his life to attempting to solve the riddle of the mechanism.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler