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Meanwhile, the Romanian defence ministry said a Spanish fighter jet shot down a drone that had breached its airspace near the border with Ukraine and Moldova.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
On a recent night in Kyiv when there were mixed signals about a Russian strike, Kateryna Reshetnyk had gone down to the subway.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
“Some of those people would have gone their entire lives without being brought into a courtroom, let alone being sued by a neighbor who lives 3 miles down the street,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
The economy is growing solidly, unemployment rates are at record lows, and inflation has come down.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
The Damasio team whittles it down to one.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
Through years of typical relationship ups and downs, our attraction to each other has hardly wavered.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
"There's lots of ups and downs, it's quite stressful," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
After all, his previous four seasons spent coaching the Trojans had been nothing short of a powder keg, filled with ups and downs, as well as a constant undercurrent of tension and uncertainty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
"How long the dramatic improvement in relations will last is uncertain given the history of ups and downs" in ties, said Maleeha Lodhi, Pakistan's former ambassador to Washington.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
It was different from the meadow copses they had left: a narrow belt of trees, four or five hundred yards long but barely fifty wide; a kind of windbreak common on the downs.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
Ukraine downed under a third of them, according to the AFP tally of official data.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
Residents were urged to shelter in place due to downed power lines and other hazards.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
A surface-to-air battery operated by Greek personnel in Saudi Arabia downed two ballistic missiles and a drone over Yanbu, the Greek air force media office said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
And another U.S. servicemember was killed this weekend during the controlled detonation of a downed Iranian attack drone in Northern Iraq.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Charlie led Joe among the stumps and downed trees, teaching him how to understand what lay beneath the bark of the fallen logs.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
The United States has also indicted former president Raul Castro, brother of revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, over the downing of two civilian planes three decades ago.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
JC: Think about it: The world of sports has entered a bizarre new dimension, one in which formerly sad-sack teams are now the ones downing champagne and getting showered in confetti.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Marines used the Marine Air Defense Integrated System in the Philippines to practice downing drones with cost-effective methods.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
CBS News reported that the possible indictment would focus on the 1996 downing of two civilian planes manned by anti-Castro pilots, citing US officials familiar with the matter.
From Barron's ● May 20, 2026
I can picture all of this: three generations of laughing Theos, downing mugs of coffee and biscuits, storming out garrulously into the dawn, wearing wool hunting hats and surrounded by baleful golden retrievers.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
