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book

[book] / bƊk /






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The book shows Edgeworth as a gifted translator of economic ideas, carrying the arguments of Smith, Malthus and Ricardo to readers young and old who would never open a treatise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

After receiving what he describes in the book as “a full-court, hard sell,” he joined Sea Org “for … wait for it … one billion years.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

At Botanica, Mandel tells me it’s the best book she’s ever written, certainly the most complex and ambitious.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

In an email interview, Morgen Witzel, a fellow at Exeter Centre of Leadership who wrote a book on the brand in 2010, cited several examples on the group's connection with people.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

I should be at school already, claiming my good-luck desk in the front right corner of the math room and listening to my tune-everything-out playlist while coloring the next page in my coloring-for-stress-relief book.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

And my view now is that you should read books and watch television, and neither is bad for the imagination.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

A cheery disposition didn’t keep Friedman from seeing that a “tyranny of the status quo”—the title of one of the books he wrote with his wife, Rose—often blocked the adoption of good policies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

By Yiyun Li Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 352 pages, $29 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Parth Kochhar looks to see what amenity kits are available before he books a flight—though it doesn’t yet influence his final purchases.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

There were photos, notes, library books, your best friend Shana’s borrowed sweater, that one beaded earring.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

The company flagged a charge of $3 billion to $4.5 billion booked against its transition businesses, which include electric-vehicle charging.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Giuseppe Sette, president and co-founder of the AI investment analytics platform Reflexivity, told MarketWatch that Monday’s market action didn’t signal any “crack in optical demand, which remains booked out for years.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

Elliot Anderson: Always showed for the ball and constantly involved but lucky not to get booked for pulling Gravenberch back.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

Officers called back later to say that Magaña had been arrested for “evading the police” and was booked into the Van Nuys jail.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

Pretty soon we were getting booked more and more in the suburbs, meeting white people, playing for white people.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

Agentic software can autonomously perform specific tasks such as coding, research, shopping, booking reservations or shopping.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

The difference between a regular chatbot and an agent is that users typically ask agents to carry out tasks, like organizing their calendar or booking an appointment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Tui apologised and blamed low water levels on the Danube, adding that customers continued their holidays on amended itineraries under its standard booking conditions.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

For Punk Rock Bowling, that presented more than a booking problem.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

The squad car pulls into the sally port at the side of Alameda County Juvenile Hall and the officers escort you into the booking room.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater




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