fan
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“I mean, I’m such a fan of ‘Paradise,’” she affirms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
The opera company’s summer season featured impressive stagings of Mozart’s ‘Così fan tutte’ and Gregory Spears’s ‘Fellow Travelers,’ as well as grating versions of ‘Oklahoma’ and ‘Madama Butterfly.’
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
If you’re a fan of film and all the places it can take you, you can’t do much better than this.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
Enrico said his mother had also been a Tyler fan so he began listening to her music as a child.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
She studied the outfit another moment before she swapped out the feathers for a simple bamboo-and-silk folding fan.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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The full judgements made by the Key Match Incidents Panel on referee and video assistant referee decisions will be shared with fans for the first time this season.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Moskow noted that the pressure on Hidden Valley Ranch sales comes after the brand had benefited from heightened consumer interest during the World Cup earlier this summer, when international fans became enamored with ranch flavoring.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
He concluded his post by sending his condolences to Panettiere’s loved ones and fans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
She can sell out stadium tours, inspire fans to buy branded merchandise and replicate her outfits, and even boost entire economies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
“If he does, it might be for the best,” Marjory told her small cluster of fans.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
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Those personnel fanned across the archipelago nation, carrying out a wider range of activities than in the past.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
Yet, fires fanned by increasingly extreme weather have stress-tested these measures more than ever before.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
Thousands of people have been evacuated on the Greek island of Crete as wildfires fanned by strong winds menace tourist resorts and villages.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
Elsewhere in Europe, thousands of people were evacuated late on Wednesday as fires threatened a tourist resort on the Greek island of Crete and continued to rage on Thursday, fanned by violent winds, authorities said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
“Oh my,” Nan said and fanned the air.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
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On an overcast Wednesday morning in Salt Lake City this summer, four bicyclists gathered in an industrial area not far from the city’s airport before fanning out across town.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
Social insects including bees rely on cooling behavior for example fanning their wings when things get too hot to buffer the hive but there are limits as to how effective this is in extreme heat.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
Both main contracts soared around eight percent, with Brent topping $80 a barrel for the first time in two weeks, fanning fresh fears of a spike in inflation and a hit to the economy.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
Among them was US R&B star Kehlani, who jumped on a remix, fanning the song's smouldering groove into a full-blown inferno.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
With his tail fanning the air, he started his inspection of the lawn.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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