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City are used to always having most of the ball but they were fine without it against United.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
“They said it will be fine and help me,” he said of the transition.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
It worked fine — until I actually needed it.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 12, 2026
If an atomic nucleus were enlarged to the size of a football stadium, the experiment's highest resolution would be fine enough to distinguish features only a few yards wide on the field.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
Her fur jacket is made of hairs so fine that three hundred thousand are packed into one square inch so that she's always warm and waterproof.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
“Is it fine art? It’s finer art because it’s actually telling a story,” Lucas said at a museum party last week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
But the problem with that is, when you’re always examining the finer details, you miss the bigger, beautiful picture.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
“Higher capacity is required for complex transactions like contracts, which require not just grasping the immediate exchange, but also comprehending finer details, consequences and the broader context.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
Newcastle and Arsenal have been discussing the finer terms of the deal this week with a final agreement now considered a formality.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
We can now make out finer detail on it than the largest telescopes on Earth have ever obtained.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Remarkably, evidence of that ancient meal survived in fossilized feces, preserving what researchers describe as the finest feather specimen yet discovered from the age of dinosaurs.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
"When I looked back, the school was standing there like the finest of buildings, and in five minutes, everything collapsed," Dawadi recalled.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
“When this happens,” Polybius wrote, “the state will change its name to the finest sounding of all, freedom and democracy; but will change its nature to the worst thing of all, mob-rule.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
But with the retirements of Beaumont and Knight, two of England's finest, head coach Charlotte Edwards is building towards next summer's Ashes with places up for grabs in the top order.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Billed as “the finest building of its kind in Oklahoma,” the theater had Greek columns and murals and a necklace of lights around the stage.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
Drivers who fail to stop for a school crossing warden can be fined up to £1,000 and have three penalty points added to their licence.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
Candidates or senators who willingly falsify financial disclosures can be fined up to $50,000 or prosecuted for making a false statement to the government, a felony.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
The Clippers are also fined $30 million—tip money, but still.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
A few weeks later, Fritsch was sentenced in absentia to 15 years in federal prison, fined $35,000 and ordered to pay $26,806,901 in restitution.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
A great many citizens felt such measures were harsh and unfair, especially after being fined when mosquito eggs were found on their property.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
He is accused of violating Kalshi’s rules regarding insider trading and market manipulation, fining him more than $71,000.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
In 2016, Ashley admitted to MPs that workers at his Derbyshire warehouse had been paid below the minimum wage and a policy of fining staff for being late was unacceptable.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
That’s not only because judges are fining more lawyers for their laziness, but because the publicity about these embarrassments has been inescapable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026
The league could escalate from fining teams to outright revoking their draft picks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026
He helped me tug my wet coat off—the fining was all stuck to my sweater.
From "When You Reach Me" by Rebecca Stead
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