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The transaction is expected to close in the current quarter or early 2027 and is subject to regulatory approvals, it said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
Doan Van Cong, 68, and his family spent years touring cemeteries and talking to witnesses to discover what happened to his uncle, who died in 1950, when he was in his early 20s.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
Jonah, an expert on early dinosaurs, immediately recognized the importance of the material.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
“West of that point, almost no rain fell at all, and in early October we had a record-breaking heat wave,” Swain said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
The course is forty-five minutes away, but there’s no traffic at six a.m. on a summer Saturday, so we arrive exactly as early as I wanted to arrive.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
"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
The alcalde will be please' to accommodate at the earlies'.
From The Ne'er-Do-Well by Rex Ellingwood Beach
Net profit climbed to 4.96 billion euros from nearly 2.13 billion euros a year earlier, beating market expectations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
It appears that many of these fossils can’t be referred to South African species either, contrary to earlier assumptions.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
Downtown occupancy reached 66% in June, down from 71% a year earlier, the report says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Pope Leo XIV underwent surgery earlier this week, which led to a diagnosis of lung cancer on Tuesday.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026
For he had become a Christian, some forty years earlier, without ceasing in the least to be a loyal Jew.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
"They really do go straight to surgery only for the earliest stage tumors, which makes me think this was a very early stage tumor, and has a quite good prognosis."
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
The finding illustrates how scientists can now investigate the earliest stages of development with a level of detail that was previously difficult to achieve.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
The earliest date a hearing can take place, he said, will be after the Fed's policy meeting scheduled for December 8-9.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
That build-out attempts to solve a chicken-and-egg problem that has beguiled EVs since their earliest days: without adequate charging infrastructure, people won’t buy the cars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
Part of this involved studying the earliest Greek versions of the Bible rather than translations into Latin.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
