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Both raised concerns about the 2024 version, telling state lawmakers that the universities could face criminal penalties, civil fines or the loss of federal contracts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
Charity Young Lives vs Cancer says families of children with cancer face average extra costs of around £700 a month, and an average loss of income of about £6,000 per household.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
That Chambliss sprint cemented his status as the last player you’d want to face with a game on the line.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
I should disclose that I am helpless in the face of good food packaging.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
The more eye contact we make, the warmer my face feels.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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A fresh cohort of famous faces – including actress Melanie Walters and former England footballer Shaun Wright-Phillips – also stepped onto the ballroom floor for the first time.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
Bistrifluron also faces a practical obstacle before a treatment based on the experiments could be easily translated into homes.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
The potential shortfall provides momentum for Caterpillar’s automation push, as the company faces the challenge of selling equipment to companies that don’t have enough operators.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
“At a time when California faces significant healthcare workforce shortages, affordable pathways to a bachelor of science in nursing are especially important in rural and underserved communities.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
People from previous arrests were sitting or lying about on the mats, too, some of them faces we knew.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Only the Pirates and Cubs have met more often than the Dodgers and Giants, who faced off for the first time in 1889.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
"We faced an opponent with incredible transitions and extraordinary players who obviously play for their team and do so very well. We controlled almost all the transitions they could have had."
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
Florida’s orange growers have faced a number of catastrophes over the years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Hershey has faced similar litigation over other seasonal Reese’s candies, including ghost-shaped chocolates without depicted facial features and football-shaped candies that lacked the laces shown on their packaging.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
In the past, they had scared off the occasional whale, but they’d never faced an army of whales.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, facing higher borrowing costs, is in a quandary as to how to lower it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
The most powerful and elite law firms, built on the idea of cradle-to-grave partnership, are facing an awkward problem: Their older, senior partners aren’t retiring.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
But if - as seems the case right now - the chances of anyone facing consequences for destroying a heritage site are close to zero, then there is all but no real deterrent.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
The Florida native was also facing legal troubles, according to news reports.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Mom rolls over so she’s facing me, propped up on her elbow.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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