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Its 10 new international destinations include eight that no other U.S. airline serves nonstop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Since Straus was sacked in mid-June, however, the team has lost just once in eight matches under interim coach Leif Gunnar Smerud, pulling to within one spot and three points of a playoff berth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
This takes into account Tests with such ball-by-ball data where we've had four balls, five balls and eight balls in an over and now finally settling to the standard six.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
During the relatively calm period between June 17 and July 7, an average of nine ships per day used the Iranian route and eight the Omani one.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
Jonah got eight more squeezes before Mr. Hodge reached the middle of the alphabet.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
We gather in sixes and eights for dinner at places chosen more for their decibels than their desserts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Looping mischievously around one another, befezzed Shriners do figure eights on their tiny motorcycles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Goddesses on roller skates glide in buttery figure eights across the glass-fiber-reinforced concrete.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026
"Doris is definitely captaincy-worthy but the number one criteria for your captain has got to be that he is a banker to start, and I think there are some really good number eights," Warburton added.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2025
There were cut lashings of net twine visible there, loose ends dangling, ten or twenty figure eights, cut through cleanly on an angle.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
