floor
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Apple’s audits also gave the iPhone maker firsthand knowledge of flash suppliers’ business operations, including the output of machines on the factory floor, according to the people familiar with the company’s procurement practices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
Make it a double feature if you so wish, but you might need to lie on the floor and stare at the ceiling after.
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026
By extending high above the forest floor, its reproductive structures may be better positioned to catch moving air and distribute spores through dense vegetation.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026
He remembered that in Sheila's final weeks, his wife was sleeping on the floor of her mother's bedroom to make sure she was alright.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
A dried leaf falls and skitters across the floor, under our table.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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When I pay a cleaning fee, I expect someone to handle the work of preparing a property for its next occupants: washing linens, scrubbing bathrooms, cleaning floors.
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026
The “Concourse,” a central bank of bleacher seating linking the first and second floors, provides a place to take it all in, or to watch occasional presentations and shows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
Designed by architecture firm Arquitectonica, with interiors envisioned by Yabu Pushelberg, the tower will feature more than 80,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor amenities spread across five floors.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
Senior nurses, in particular, bring vast stores of clinical intuition and operational expertise that help ensure unit safety, mentor less-experienced staff and keep complex hospital floors running efficiently.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
But when she got worked up about something, she tended to take it out on the rugs, floors, and furniture, and any dirt that might be harbored therein.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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When Cox was lbw and Jamie Overton holed out, both off Arafat, England were floored.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
“Obviously the guy was floored just to see me, let alone to see Mark,” Kasten said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
From the panels to the exhibit hall, I was floored by the number of artists, the collectibles and the displays.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026
Emma Little-Pengelly said that people who worked alongside Donaldson over the past 20 years are "floored, shocked and utterly repulsed".
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
I was floored by the vileness—and by the disappointment she must be feeling.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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"It was absolutely empty - no furniture, no cooker, no fridge, nothing and no flooring," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
The small house includes a functional kitchen, wood flooring, and a bathroom, allowing the researchers to recreate ordinary household cleaning activities.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
He first ripped out a patch of artificial grass—a creature comfort running down the middle of the facility—and replaced it with rubber flooring.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Upon entering the home, guests are greeted with checkered flooring and a grand staircase.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
Dividing the cavern was a new fifteen-meter-wide chasm, spanned only by two rickety stretches of bone flooring.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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