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When the San Diego Padres eliminated the Chicago Cubs in the wild-card round, Saturday’s early NL game went to the Dodgers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
And now we present the forecast for the Atlanta Braves, brought to you by Yogi Berra: It gets late early out there.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
Arron Lindop's try gave Warrington brief hope early in the second half, but when Tom Johnstone went over at the other end, the game was up despite Lindop's second try late on.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
The White House clarified that eligible recipients will receive $90, mostly through direct deposit beginning in early October.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
She’d probably got up early to go for a walk and calm down.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
"The later crops, the second earlies, are more a concern, because they're at tuber initiation stage," he said.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2023
Circumcising babies when they are at their earlies stage of development-imprinting every experience- is bad medicine.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 12, 2012
After Panetta met with the Washington Post’s David Ignatius earlies this month, the columnist wrote that “Panetta believes there is a strong likelihood that Israel will strike Iran in April, May or June.”
From Time ● Feb. 23, 2012
If you, like me, have long been befuddled by potato planting classifications – earlies, second earlies, maincrop, lates – this podcast is revelatory.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2010
He caught himself thinking, as he saw them, of Stock Exchanges, two-penny-tubes, Belgravia dinner parties, private views, "small and earlies," musical comedy, and all the rest of the dismal and meager program.
From The Centaur by Algernon Blackwood
He's also been joined on the One Show on separate occasions by Ross Kemp, Miranda Hart and James Blunt - and earlier this year, he discussed AI on stage with Hannah Fry.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
The Sunday Telegraph has more revelations about the co-pilot accused of attacking his fellow pilot on a Flydubai plane travelling to Israel earlier this week.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Two innings earlier Dodgers left fielder Teoscar Hernández broke up the scoreless tie with a two-run homer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Researchers combined previously published genomic information for long Covid, PTSD, rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis from existing genome-wide association studies with 3D genomic data from an earlier study of people with ME/CFS.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
“I saw your earlier attempts in the dog food bowl. Were you craving this?”
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Other buildings still on the site are not intended to be demolished until 2040 at the earliest with final site clearance expected by 2095.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
OpenAI has delayed its own Wall Street debut till next year at the earliest, as Anthropic aims for November.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
The nationwide tour was one of Wasserman’s earliest plans for the relay.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
Before JWST, researchers could not directly observe molecular hydrogen, but the team predicted that molecular winds should exist and could be dense enough during the earliest stages to block X-ray photons.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
She promised to reply to each one at the earliest opportunity, although with an important speech to write and so many mysteries to ponder, who knew when that might be?
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
