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The brief “Target Practice” opens the LP with a jaunty acoustic guitar figure and Mr. Picton’s somewhat reedy voice, and then adds a string section and massed voices that ratchet up the density and volume.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
“The U.S. and Iran failed to reach an agreement in their very brief talks over the weekend,” wrote Vertical Research Partners analyst Rob Stallard in a Monday note.
From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026
“It feels late,” the Colombian superstar said onstage, in a brief English-language address to the audience in a set otherwise fully in Spanish.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026
That’s visible in the chart above, which also shows a significant but brief drop in WTI versus Brent in 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic destroyed demand and storage facilities filled up.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 13, 2026
She had not seemed herself since they entered the caverns, except for the brief time when they were swimming.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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"All Summer in a Day" by Ray Bradbury
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act V
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