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The complex will have 35,000 square feet of commercial space that a draft environmental impact report described as including stores, restaurants, coffee shops, fitness studios, and childcare facilities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
But a bill currently working its way through Parliament, the draft Conversion Practices Bill, has met with opposition from some religious groups.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Under the EU draft seen by AFP, the following would apply:
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
What the draft doesn’t mention is that the report was commissioned by Paramount.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
All the mirth had drained from Rose’s face, and Ophie shivered as a draft found its way around the windows and twirled through the kitchen.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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I run partial or complete drafts through a chatbot and ask what it thinks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Go do this 10-minute play workshop, then do 90 drafts of it, and then we’ll do a reading.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
It’s the government itself that controls when it releases drafts and final versions of all these rules and regulations.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026
Didn’t they circulate scores of drafts for everyone to see?
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
Like all the King’s House this room was high, red, old, bare, with a musty chill on the air as if the drafts blew in not from other rooms but from other centuries.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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He led the team that drafted the European Commission’s AI Act proposal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
However, Gurney, who was drafted in as a late replacement when Lourence Ilagan withdrew from the 32-man field, responded by taking the ninth leg.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
With hundreds of thousands of men drafted to fight, labour shortages are also hitting the sector.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
After finishing at the University of Minnesota in 1973, I was drafted by four teams in three different sports—baseball’s San Diego Padres, basketball’s Atlanta Hawks and Utah Stars, and football’s Minnesota Vikings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The Selective Service caught up with him, and he was drafted.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
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Some assembly members have now accused the minister of making a "U-turn", with "substantial sums of public money" spent on drafting legislation "to fix his error of judgement".
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
The operation also ghost-wrote official testimonies intended for delivery at the 62nd session of the UN Human Rights Council, drafting them under "specific restrictions" that the speeches not mention the UAE.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
She also stays up late drafting social media posts with the president, the New York Times reported.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
“I frankly thought that there was still drafting and wordsmithing going on,” Wall told the judge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
The drafting table by the windows is all but hidden in the meticulously ordered chaos of papers and diagrams and blueprints.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 3
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