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The result could be that by 2055 England will face a shortfall of five billion litres in public water supply a day, almost enough to fill Wembley Stadium four and a half times daily.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Equal to 1 billion metric tons, a gigaton is the equivalent of a cubic kilometer of water, enough to fill 400,000 Olympic swimming pools.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
Nvidia sought to fill that gap by promising to rent the GPU capacity itself if the provider couldn’t find another customer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Money generated by Daisy Chain Fields will be “flexible dollars,” Iyer explained, usable for anything an organization needs to fill in the gaps.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
“But we can’t leave you here to drown! You heard what they said—once the lake starts to fill, this whole place will be underwater, whether we like it or not! We have to get away!”
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
On the first, the most consistent advice Navarro has received is to make sure your leadership team fills out your weaknesses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
“Water is soft but strong: There could be an intense hurricane or flood, but it’s also adaptable and pliable; it fills a space. Tai chi is water-like that way.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
The review would be done by the Los Angeles Continuum of Care, a behind-the-scenes board of community members that fills a Congressionally-mandated role guiding policy for federally-funded programs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
The roar of engines fills the night air in China's Chongqing city as tourists awkwardly clamber onto gleaming motorbikes and cling to muscular drivers to star in personalised videos.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
She enjoys writing her name and fills the page with the word Gloria.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
"I think there's a really nice atmosphere around it," said master luthier Zhang, describing how music now often filled the main square.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
The command said that the Iranian launchers, which were deployed on Larak Island, were preparing to fire rockets filled with sea mines into the strait when they were struck.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
He's eating "doubles", a street food snack of flatbreads filled with curried chickpeas.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
Ten days later, villagers filled the square again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
Then the corridors filled with servants chanting, "Welcome to the flower and cream of knighthood!"
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
Overnight rain and rising river waters also hampered rescue operations on Sunday, filling the excavation area with water before conditions eased, the Nepali army said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
A three-part podcast series about how AI mental-health chatbots are filling the rising demand for therapy, and the risks they may bring with them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
I’m filling in for Ian today, so let’s take a break from the usual ignominies we cover on the Slatest to talk about something completely different.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026
By filling the long-standing 80 million-year hexapod gap, the work pushes the early diversification of insects back from the Late Carboniferous into the Early Devonian.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
Then he plunged them into the snow and began to build a wall of snow up around the entrance, filling the gaping space till only a small hole was left for the wind to penetrate.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
