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The company, whose early trading days date to the 19th century and the era of British rule, once exported opium to China and sold cotton to Britain when the American Civil War dried up supplies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
For 45 turgid minutes in Slovenia, some in the Tartan Army might have reimagined the Steve Clarke years as a time of plenty, the halcyon era of ambitious football when Scotland were an all-electric thrill-fest.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
The demolition has begun at Bengaluru's Urvashi Cinema, once a 1,200-seat movie palace where generations of filmgoers cheered and whistled, another casualty of India's vanishing single-screen era.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
After one of the busiest offseasons in the NBA, the Lakers begin their Luka Doncic-led era this week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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I’m versatile and my style is a summation of all the eras in my life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
By measuring that shift, astronomers can study hydrogen from different eras in cosmic history.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
Bilton sees AI as the kind of defining story “60 Minutes” tackled in previous eras, including the Vietnam War, the fight against Big Tobacco and the Sept. 11 attacks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
This “doesn’t mean nothing works. It just means different things work” in different eras.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
That talk with Tommy beside the pond: I think of it now as a kind of marker between the two eras.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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