desk
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I sat in the plastic folding chair in the office, across from Fleurijean’s desk, where a few weeks prior, a 20-year-old named Pierre Damas Bel had sat, asking for help.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026
“When that script came across my desk, I was like ‘This is insane,’” Harper says of the show, now streaming on MGM+.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
He spent hours at his desk sketching, working out how to make the technology smaller and lighter.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
"I've had to give my desk chair to pupils," she added.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
He ought to sit up there at the desk instead of Little Britches, being teacher’s pet.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
Wall Street banks are having a live-by-the-sword, die-by-the-sword moment with their trading desks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Some rested on cots and benches with their dogs in hallways, while others lay with blankets on the floors of classrooms where desks and chairs were pushed to the side.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
At one point, a Greenlandic politician told ProPublica, some schoolchildren were instructed to practice hiding under their desks in case of such an event.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026
Dozens of “staff members” fill rows of desks in the bullpen — some clack away on keyboards, others have phone receivers sandwiched between their head and shoulders while taking notes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
She didn’t have freckles or the pimples and blotches that Darlene Roberts had, who was three desks in front of her.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
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