descend
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In Kashgar, middle-aged Chinese men in cowboy hats descend from tour buses to chow down on grilled lamb skewers and pilaf.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
The discovery raises new questions about how heat is distributed inside Earth and how tectonic plates behave as they descend.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
Whitney after they failed to descend the mountain and reunite with a hiking companion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
A 22:30 curfew was implemented that night to get the fans into the stadium early, ensuring they would not "descend on the stadium" just before the fight began.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
Our knees move in unison, bobbing up and down as we descend.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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Each September, a who's who of executives from across Silicon Valley descends on San Francisco's Palace Hotel to charm investors at a conference hosted by the investment bank Goldman Sachs.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Jack Tucker descends from the rafters inside L.A.’s Montalbán Theatre like a kamikaze crash landing into his big moment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Every living animal ultimately descends from a common ancestor that existed more than 600 million years ago.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
As firefighters in southwest France struggle to bring a forest inferno under control before yet another heatwave descends on the country, Filippi told AFP about the phenomenon.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
My awkward conversation with Grandfather comes sharply to mind, and a thorny silence descends.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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"The debates have once again descended to a fifth-grade level, which is absurd," dentist Lizie Moreira told AFP in Rio.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
However, this is the first time researchers have been able to reconstruct such a clear transition between different thermal conditions as a rock descended from shallower to much greater depths.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
In recent weeks, more than 1.6 million visitors have descended upon a park in Busan to catch a glimpse of Bukangi, named after the canal in which she was spotted.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Born into a Polish aristocratic Catholic family with ornate palaces and substantive political influence, d’Ornano descended from the Radziwill line of Polish princes to Prussian kings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
His mother, sister, and grandmother all descended on him, pulling him into a crowd of arms and kisses and yelling.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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Authorities advised the hikers to continue descending the mountain to maintain their body heat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
Min Aung Hlaing touched down at 0430 GMT at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, state media images showed, with the Myanmar leader descending the steps to a waiting car.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
Below is a list of every club to whom Manchester City paid transfer fees between summer 2009 and winter 2018, in descending order from the most money to the least.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
The stocks are listed in descending order of their current borrow cost.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
They called and squawked and swirled in great clouds before descending on the ruined village, chirping and fussing and circling near.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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