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Some view their record more charitably, and early last year said inflation was returning closer to target, before tariffs and then war in the Middle East stoked new pressures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
On Monday, a Los Angeles County Superior Court jury found that Manuel “Snuffy” Quintero was the intruder who got away those early morning hours of Nov. 3, 2010.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
First developed in the 1950s by British psychiatrist John Bowlby, attachment theory suggests that the bonds we form with early caregivers shape our expectations of relationships.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Both played a significant role in the Amazon's rubber boom in the late 19th and early 20th century, it added.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
It’s a valid question, because Zara doesn’t get up early.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
"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 Blackwood, Algernon
Internet-famous bald eagle Jackie’s health is improving after a scare over the weekend, the latest twist in a saga that began when the raptor was rescued near Big Bear Lake earlier this month.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Tehran had earlier denied that there were any direct talks with the US to end the conflict.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
Nvidia already has committed to investments in OpenAI, and also amended some of the earlier terms of such arrangements.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
It excludes earlier definitions that required a journalist to earn a living from reporting or be employed by an institutional news organization.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
If it really could detect a Butterfly, could it also tell that I’d held a Cocoon in my hand earlier that day?
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
In one of his first calls after becoming prime minister last Monday, Burnham spoke to Zelensky and invited him to visit the UK "at the earliest opportunity".
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
This recognizes Douglass as one of the earliest and most prominent popular constitutionalists.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
"We will make every effort to have the bill introduced and passed by the House at the earliest," Modi added.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
In the 2010 questionnaire, the earliest option for the year of diagnosis was "before 1996" and responses extended through "2010+."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
In Durham, the earliest recorded protest against segregated buses occurred in 1938, when a black man named Vernon Farrington ignored the law and sat down next to a white man.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
