draft
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Harvard-Westlake had become known as the school for pitchers after producing first-round draft picks Jack Flaherty, Lucas Giolito and Max Fried.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026
Shortly before the NFL trade deadline on Tuesday, the Chargers reached an agreement with the Broncos for Henley in exchange for a 2027 fourth-round draft pick and a 2028 fifth-round pick.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026
Next week, ministers will unveil draft spending plans for all public services for the 2027-28 financial year.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026
The Minnesota Vikings acquired quarterback Kirk Cousins from the Las Vegas Raiders in exchange for a third-round draft pick.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
He also didn't want to have to register for the draft.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
Grinstein recalls working on a screenplay with his co-writer and using Claude, Anthropic’s AI assistant, to generate initial drafts for them to edit and refine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026
Early drafts of the EU position seen by the BBC make clear they would only sign up to a goal on electrification if it did not allow countries to meet the target using gas.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
“First drafts DONE,” she wrote in the caption.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026
Note the softly creased light lines and shallow drafts along the door panels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
The gulls glided back around, all together, all yawing their wings to the drafts that brought them low to the water.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
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In one case, Posner misunderstood an order from his boss, and drafted an opinion coming out on the wrong side of the case.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
The Rams drafted Williams in the fifth round out of Notre Dame in 2022, and selected Corum in the third round out of Michigan in 2024.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
Instead of a final declaration, the source expects a chair summary drafted by the United States to be published from this week's meeting.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
His move to Minnesota marked the end of a significant chapter in his career, with the point guard leaving the team that originally drafted him.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
Woodhull pointed out that the Fourteenth Amendment used the word “persons” and that the Founding Fathers had also used the word “persons” rather than distinguish between men and women when they drafted the Constitution.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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By age 26, she was the CSO’s political director, drafting legislation and tenaciously lobbying for those bills in the state capitol, often ambushing lawmakers in their offices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
"It's going through the final contours, the legal drafting, and we hope to be able to finalise that soon and operationalise that once we get competitive advantage over our peer countries," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026
Many would-be landlords cringe at the legal costs of buying a property and drafting a lease.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
Now a real estate developer in his early 80s, his organisation is drafting plans for what he calls "the day after" in Cuba.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Now he needed to seek approval from the Exposition Company’s executive committee at every step, even to buy drafting boards.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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