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But the combat happens in short spurts, allowing a fair amount of downtime for recuperation, conversation and enjoyment of the sport.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Shein says it conducts regular third-party audits to ensure fair wages, and it says its on-demand model avoids overproduction and thus "dramatically reduces waste".
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
“It’s fair to say that at some point — at some time — there will be a crisis,” said John Arnold, a billionaire former Enron energy trader and the founder of philanthropy Arnold Ventures.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 23, 2026
Ms. Van Erem’s one fair point regards Harvard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
“Hmm,” he muttered, “you have to make your own fair in this world!”
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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The reforms made the system "fairer for taxpayers across the country", ministers added.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Calendar integration is one way that productivity trackers have gotten more advanced and, ostensibly, fairer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
A standardized system of weights and measures used throughout the region may have supported fairer trade as well.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
"I am confident that Britain is now stronger and fairer than it was two years ago," Starmer told reporters in his farewell speech outside Downing Street.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
Then he ran, too, and probably hit a whole lot more trees than he would have if the world was a fairer place.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
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The fairest answer is that he was partly right, for reasons he did not fully understand, and he exaggerated the promise.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
Welcome to Goodwood Festival of Speed, an annual four-day motorsports-apalooza where the fastest, fairest and most excessively expensive cars in the world compete for driveway bragging rights.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
"It was a hard-fought game, the details led to Betis winning, I think a draw would have been fairest," Villarreal midfielder Dani Parejo told Movistar.
From Barron's ● Jan. 17, 2026
Palace will say it's the fairest outcome, as both clubs will go into the cup tie facing the same problem of short-term fatigue.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2025
Everyone in the house was Métis, but Berlin’s roommates insisted on saying Navajo tacos because their stepdad was Diné, while Simon, the undisputed star of language camp, argued NDN was fairest.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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