establish
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A hearing at the end of the month could establish whether prosecutors will move ahead with second trial or attempt to reach a plea deal.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day exists because Steinem helped establish it.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026
Steinem first drew public notice when she was in her 20s and struggling to establish herself as a freelance writer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
The observational study also cannot establish that prolonged sitting directly causes cancer or cancer death.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
Third, Galileo had the example of Gilbert, who had used the careful manipulation of experimental apparatus to establish new and unsuspected truths.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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“This agreement establishes a standard that is far lower than that required by more than 100 countries around the world,” said Kimball.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
This battle over cheese does not pass the smell test for Busch, who argues the U.S. also gives preferential treatment to countries it establishes trade deals with—including Canada.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2026
Cohen’s office said in a statement that its bill “clarifies existing law and establishes a consistent, common-sense standard for determining whether an owner remains connected to a securities account.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
None of that establishes that political access changed the government’s response.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
But once a science establishes itself it becomes, to a remarkable degree, autonomous, immune to influence from other fields.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Whether every incident is part of a single feud has not been established.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
In four major speeches Douglass extolled the Mayflower, joining antislavery figures who looked back to the Plymouth settlers—who established government by consent and initially did not legalize slavery—as an ur-source of abolitionism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
The measure, which also established an elected insurance commissioner with the authority to review rates, passed with 51% of the vote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
However, anatomical studies have shown that in humans, the projections reach the cortex long before those final connections are established.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
As we’ve established, absolutely no wandering souls would visit Clare’s woods for the next three days.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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The Wachtell report also does a sly job of establishing what we all kind of knew: these Leonard deals never made much sense.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
"Conditional OCC approval is an important first step towards establishing the proposed Revolut Bank US," Nik Storonsky, the firm's co-founder and CEO, said in a statement.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
The patriarch played a crucial role in the development of his daughter Selena’s career, establishing his family-led band Selena y Los Dinos in the 1980s as a way to meet financial needs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
After establishing a career in accountancy and working in London, he returned home in the mid-1990s to find many local young people struggling in the aftermath of pit closures and industrial decline.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
About the same time, on the nearby island of Cos, Hippocrates was establishing his famous medical tradition, now barely remembered because of the Hippocratic oath.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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