sprint
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In many cases, the account holders hadn’t yet realized they were being scammed, people who participated in the sprint said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
The break was caught with around 23km remaining, setting up the bunch sprint finale.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
OpenAI says it began the furious sprint to a Navier-Stokes resolution last week, after hearing rumors that a Millennium Prize problem had been solved—by Anthropic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Try watching a robot sprint straight into a wall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
And then he took off in a sprint, and Twig chased him, stumbling and picking up handfuls of snow as she went.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
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They found that six 30-second, all-out sprints changed nearly one-quarter of the proteins measured in the blood immediately after exercise.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
At OpenAI and Anthropic, for instance, sprints can stretch on for many weeks and top 90 hours of work in a seven-day period, tech workers that the BBC spoke to for this story said.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
The kid known for his electric speed ranks only ninth in total sprints on his own team and his average speed has been below his teammate Aymeric Laporte’s—even though Laporte is a central defender.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
When taking playing time into account, they've actually run the least and made the fewest sprints of the four sides remaining.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
He sprints alongside rolling freight cars and focuses on his footing.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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The British Visma Lease-a-bike rider sprinted to victory ahead of Bryan Coquard and Vito Braet in Palos de la Frontera.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
But from the second quarter, when quarterback Sam Leavitt sprinted for two touchdown runs to put LSU up 31-3, it was clear that there would be nothing close about Saturday’s contest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
His colleague, Itha Ghale, says the powerful gust of air almost blew them away as they sprinted.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
In one, apparently written during or after an overseas golfing trip, Harp apologizes for having sprinted after the president for lack of a golf cart.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
I shrieked and sprinted toward the caravan in the oasis.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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U.S. importers are sprinting to the finish of a prolonged peak season this year, the WSJ Logistics Report’s Liz Young writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
She did so with a huge smile spread across her face, leaning into the big notes of Dangerous Woman, and sprinting across the stage during Break Free - one of many up-tempo highlights.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Just three minutes of sprinting may produce a molecular response that looks very different from what happens after 90 minutes of moderate exercise.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
But launch timing in sprinting is everything, and even a lead-out train can get things wrong.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
He’d barely started to walk away when Jess and the twins were sprinting toward the forest.
From "I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980" by Lauren Tarshis
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