draw
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Having been handed a peach of a draw, England are unlikely to cross paths with South Africa, New Zealand or France until a potential final.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Whether the Lucas Museum upends the art world may depend less on whether other museums adopt its philosophy than on whether audiences embrace the connections it attempts to draw.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Taken together, it’s hard to imagine the event will draw much beyond a paltry audience.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
Your $1.53 million portfolio is a nice cushion that you can draw from and/or with the help of your CFP, make strategic Roth conversions.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
I draw three boxes, and divide those into smaller boxes, until I have a makeshift three-month calendar.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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Its strategy draws on lessons from Ukraine’s rapidly evolving drone war and the combat experience gained through two Ukrainian subsidiaries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Martin McDonagh, the writer-director behind “In Bruges,” “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” and “The Banshees of Inisherin,” draws something new out of him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Each way of remembering draws a boundary around the terrorism the nation experienced, deciding how far beyond that September morning its meaning should extend.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
The framework draws on a long history of mathematical work.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
My mind draws red arrows showing my path, escaping from the fire’s maze.
From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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Last year, Diageo drew flak in Canada for closing a bottling facility for Crown Royal in Ontario.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
He drew parallels with the horrors of the Holocaust, noting that images of Nazi concentration camps only became public after the atrocities.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Despite drawing Real Madrid and Bayern Munich from pot one, Mikel Arteta's side also drew the two lowest-ranked sides in the competition - Sabah and Slovan Bratislava.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
With public appearances like those that drew Mr. Mamdani’s condemnation, the RSS has indicated an interest in greater international engagement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
I drew in my breath, pulling my foot out.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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From the conclusions drawn by Bank of America’s proprietary “bubble risk indicator,” analysts remain relatively untroubled about U.S. stock indices and say equities will quickly bounce back from any pullback.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
The stories that follow are drawn from those published accounts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
The cliff divers, drawn to the thrills of the illicit jumps amplified by social media, reveled in dozens of leaps.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Navier-Stokes is one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems, a list of the hardest open questions in mathematics drawn up by the Clay Mathematics Institute.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
The betrayal of it, the way he had grabbed at her heart, had drawn her out in a way no one ever had...
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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“I would’ve thought it has many of the attributes of copper,” Lawcock put to the BHP executives, drawing parallels between uranium and the industrial metal that is central to the miner’s growth plans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
To address those weaknesses, the framework recommends drawing on a much broader range of information.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
Coastal Southern California enjoys its relatively mild summer climate thanks to several factors, including a cool ocean’s air-conditioning effect, protective mountains, proximity to deserts, and a weather pattern that usually avoids drawing in tropical moisture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
In 2018, as Beto O’Rourke was weighing a national campaign, the former president was the one drawing comparisons between them.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
On Dad’s knees is a sketchbook, a drawing of whirls and curls.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
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Common Core Grades 7–8, List 2
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