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"Acquiring weapons is not like ordering at a drive-through. Production, delivery and training all take time before the systems can enter service and become effective."
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
“I don’t want to enter retirement owing six figures when we have the cash to clear it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Hearing him enter the song with a flow that’s not indebted to a J.J.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026
He put his growing stature to the test a few years later when he decided to enter the L.A. mayor’s race in 2001.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
A concealed vent, cunningly let into the real wall, allowed air to enter from outside.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
The organization was desperate to pair Doncic with a rim-running, lob-catching center to maximize the star guard’s offensive capabilities as he enters the prime of his career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Rain enters fractures in the mountain and pushes them closer to failure by increasing the water pressure in cracks.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
Now every piece of post that enters the jail is scanned for moisture.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
A weakened economy and rapid AI adoption have shrunk the job market, just as a record crop of graduates enters the workforce.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
It enters a chestnut effortlessly, devours the cambium cells, and positions itself for attack on the next tree before the tree has the faintest idea, chemically speaking, what hit it.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
How to show that a ghost has entered Lincoln?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
In an update on Sunday evening, NRW said due to the nature of the incident, identifying how the fuel entered the drainage system was difficult as it involved underground systems.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
Very little of the compound entered their bloodstream.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
Since Holmes entered federal prison in May 2023, Evans has been raising their two children in Austin, Texas, bringing them to visit her at the federal prison camp in Bryan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
The next time Daisy entered my room she was all decked out in her nurse’s uniform.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
He and 12 other House members successfully sued the Trump administration after he was blocked from entering a detention facility and has said he trained legal observers to document ICE abuses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
He continued to face criticism for the disappearance of thousands of unaccompanied migrant children who were supposed to be monitored by the agency’s Office of Refugee Resettlement after entering the country.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
A group stage was added, with the last 16 entering a knockout phase.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
The industry blames it on the demographic cliff that we are entering.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
At the ticket counter, an immigration officer had routinely checked his passport, entering the number: Z7792702.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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