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“The only thing we’re able to recommend is that people check with their airlines before they travel.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026
Airports encouraged people to check their flight status to avoid long wait times.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
To check the finding, Jurić examined Rubin's stored observations and located 20 additional detections of ED138, including some captured as early as March 2026.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2026
Nanini highlighted the time it takes to check whether different countries allow each ingredient in a perfume.
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026
After I finish the last problem and check all my work, I’m about to stand up to turn in my exam, but the legs of someone else’s chair scrape against the floor first.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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Combining their resources will let them write bigger checks and gives them a budget to hire staff.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2026
Just be careful to follow proper processes so the checks are payable to the charity, you stay within the annual limit, $111,000 per taxpayer in 2026, and the charities are legitimate qualified charities.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 14, 2026
That was easy for us: Our advance checks had long ago been cashed, and we knew that it might be years before we saw additional royalties.
From Slate ● Nov. 14, 2026
BBC checks of corporate records in China, Hong Kong and Singapore found that in 2019, Huang sold a gaming company and its subsidiaries to Chinese gaming firm 7Road.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026
He quickly checks the blackout curtains that Viola, our housekeeper, installed.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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Eli is making a party mix that contains pretzels and chex.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
How many cups of pretzels and how many cups of chex does he need to make 12 cups of party mix?
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
For each cup of pretzels, he uses three cups of chex.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
If the groundstop has caused you to rethink your travel plans entirely and you checked a bag, don’t just leave the airport assuming your bags won’t be flown to the destination.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
One day I woke up and my legs were the size of a watermelon, so I had to get all that checked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026
"I checked it with a spectrometer and found that even though the butterflies didn't look violet to me, it reflected UV light," she said.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026
However, his progress with England has been checked by a string of injuries.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
Coal’s skin immediately went cold, and he checked the back of his hands and his arms to see if his skin had changed at all.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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"Objects like this are very rare, so I immediately started checking whether I or the code had done something wrong."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2026
But he said US security and law enforcement agencies were still checking and had ruled nothing out.
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026
That meant looking beyond monthly premiums to compare total annual costs, including deductibles and prescription drug expenses, as well as checking pharmacies.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026
Horvath filed paperwork declaring her candidacy on Monday, checking the box for “nonpartisan” but providing little additional information.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026
I walked down the aisle like that, not seeing anybody, just checking for a spot.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
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