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Nearly her entire family, eight sisters and their offspring, were deported to Afghanistan this year from Pakistan or Iran.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
The jobless rate surged above 20 percent and only started to come down from 2005 onward to around eight percent now.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
Novartis paused eight clinical trials of its experimental CAR-T therapy, rap-cel, after three patients died from a severe immune response.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
They also faced pressure to finish examinations as fast as possible, given only three weeks to complete their work when they used to have eight weeks.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026
It’s barely eight thirty and the main parking lot for the beach is already at capacity.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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
With 17 caps under her belt, Feaunati says she is learning every day from the England number eights who have worn the shirt before her.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2025
He liked eights best, but he’d settle for fours, sixes, twelves, sixteens, any even number, really.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
