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Khan works with senior lawyers in her firm and directly with clients, which she wouldn’t be able to do at such an early age had she gone to college.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
Their holidays are a similar length to Scotland's but England and Wales schools did not break up until late July, something that meant pupils were in school during the peak of the early summer heat.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
This explains why my brain reflexively associated Ritchson’s latest work in a movie classic cinema buffs would likely dismiss as trash, with one of the greatest performers of early 20th century cinema.
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2026
The researchers found that the most massive galaxies in the early universe appear to contain a much greater share of low-mass stars than smaller galaxies such as the Milky Way.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
That night after an early supper, the school board met in an emergency meeting.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
"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
Or just being more flexible - allowing schools to open earlier and finish earlier in the day to avoid a peak in temperatures.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
A poll published earlier in the week revealed that 56 percent of Canadians surveyed wanted their government to take a "hard line" and make no more concessions to Washington on trade.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
Products already subject to tariffs under earlier national-security measures, including steel, aluminum, auto parts and lumber, won’t be hit by this latest round, the White House said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
Publisher Max Lederer, who announced his retirement earlier this week after more than three decades at the publication, also received a separation notice.
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2026
I stood on tiptoes to see the edge of our own field, the potato plants as strong and the stems as thick as they had been when I passed them earlier.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
More than 450 million years ago, long before dinosaurs appeared and before animals or plants had spread widely across dry land, crinoids were already thriving in some of Earth's earliest coral reefs.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
Normally these organoids live for a few months, meaning they can only offer a window into the earliest stages of human brains, which take nearly 20 years to fully develop.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
Scientists are becoming better at identifying the types of rocks most likely to contain early fossils, providing new evidence that can help reconstruct the history of Earth's earliest life.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
U.S. carriers aren’t scheduled to resume services to Israel until the fall at the earliest, meaning that Americans have to find other ways to get there, often transiting through Europe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
And a Dr. H. Springfield, D.D.S., who suggested I visit at my earliest convenience.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
