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[fahyn] / faɪn /








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“Cutting fine arts feels like a red line to me,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

“Hoppers” “ ‘Toy Story 5’ was perfectly fine and completely unnecessary, unless you’re a Disney shareholder.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

That processing power enabled the researchers to simulate an exceptionally large region of the early universe without sacrificing the fine detail needed to investigate individual galaxies and other important structures.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

There is nothing untoward about these commitments, which are the cost of doing business, and they will work out fine so long as Anthropic’s revenue booms, as the company hopes it will.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

If he said no, that would be fine.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

The casting introduces its own familiar comic premise: the polished gay man enlisted to introduce his less domestically accomplished counterparts to the finer points of everyday living.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

Burnham hasn't yet revealed the finer details, but for now, at least, he's confident enough in his own ability to win the argument.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Coarser material settles first and forms the lower portion of a layer, while finer sediment gradually settles above it.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

Though not everyone seemed to have grasped the game’s finer points.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

“But I would really advise you to make your purchase in that neighbourhood, and take Pemberley for a kind of model. There is not a finer county in England than Derbyshire.”

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

David Jeroen and Sami Patrick are hard to miss amongst the stacked shelves in The Secret Bookshelf - they've donned their finest mythical attire for the evening, with crowns and elf ears included.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

In the end, Liverpool saw the game out and this was arguably their finest display in the league under Iraola, who secured his first league win at Anfield at the fourth time of asking.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

If the voting criteria is to reward the year’s finest movies, the answer would be an unqualified yes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

The season’s finest, captured in a scene reminiscent of the Old Masters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

He didn’t care: He’d just accomplished what the finest players in the world had been unable to do on twenty occasions during the previous nine months.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

It was only until the next day that Williams was fined $2,000 for a flop.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Three NFL head coaches were each fined $250,000 Wednesday for their conduct toward game officials.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Companies that refused to comply with the orders could be fined up to £17m or 10% of global turnover.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

An employer in the UK, who hires a worker with no legal right to work, faces being fined.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

The company is fined for each metric ton of pollutants over the legal limit.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

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

Portuguese authorities are also fining commuters for phone noise.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 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

The man went around the dining room making up reasons for fining people.

From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez


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