fit
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After twice winning comeback player of the year, quarterback Joe Burrow stays fit long enough to bag the award he really wants as the Bengals make a deep play-off run.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
According to Byfield, the decision devastated his mother so deeply that she fell into a speechless fit and died only days later.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
“The difficulty here, I think, is that Jewishness doesn’t fit neatly into the categories Americans normally use,” said Jeffrey Kopstein, the chancellor’s professor of political science at UC Irvine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
Once packaged, the finished products -- which can be made to precisely fit any glass -- are stored in a room at minus 10 degrees before shipment.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
The boys dive for a velvet armchair and tussle for a moment before realizing they both fit.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
The people included in the study may have been healthier and fitter than the general population.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
But he insists he feels fitter than ever and he dreams of "living to 120."
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
"I wanted to get fitter, I wanted to get healthier, so I started going online and took social media very much at face value without understanding the facts."
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
That is how Owen Chance, a senior at Lathrop High School in Lathrop, Mo., got into a regional vocational program for high-school students, learning to be a pipe fitter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 2026
Almost an hour had passed before the fitter swayed to a stop.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
The movie projects contempt for the dense from its first frame, sharing a montage of recent pop culture as a stentorian narrator worries that modern conveniences have perverted the concept of survival of the fittest.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
Riglar added: "She was one of the fittest players on the team anyway."
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
"The process is just a little bit survival of the fittest," Highton says.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
In the meantime, it will be survival of the fittest drivers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2026
If Darwin were alive today the insect world would delight and astound him with its impressive verification of his theories of the survival of the fittest.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
But because of the rapid pace of the modifications, the Qatari jet was reportedly not fitted with anti-missile security systems.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
By the late 1970s, one in two Greenlandic women of childbearing age -- at least 4,070 women -- had been fitted with an IUD, according to an investigation presented in September 2025.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
On 18 January, she underwent emergency surgery, in which part of her bowel was removed and a stoma fitted.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
An investigation found that Boeing had improperly fitted the outsourced fuselage and door plug parts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Right after them, Darlene marched up with a better one, a flowchart with little orange Halloween lights fitted through the poster board.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
The project served as the final chapter in Cameron’s own extensive renovation of the home—and was particularly fitting given his growing career in real estate.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
Today, Monday, is the interview, to be immediately followed by a fitting in the Valley for Ferragamo — the Italian luxury house that put him up in this Art Deco landmark on the Sunset Strip.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
We intended to be observers, mostly—ready to ride, skeptical about fitting into a party ride.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
There’s no more fitting description of a documentary that’s cobbled together from the dying gasps of ’90s fashion culture, when glamor and mischief reigned supreme.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
“I have a lot on my mind. But tell me, how are you fitting in at school?”
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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