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Although he didn’t start against Norway, Ronaldo was sent to warm up during the second half and spent some 30 minutes doing so.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Instead, Lula will appear on the Flow podcast -- which has 10 million followers on YouTube -- starting half an hour before the debate.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
He’s since rented a room out to one of his best friends, who pays for about half of the mortgage and other housing expenses including utilities.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
Xiaomi entered the second half of the year with considerably more raw-material inventory but lower finished-goods inventory, they note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
He works in Currier's stable for a year and a half.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
Dresser wanted a Dutch door — one where both the top and bottom halves swing open independently — attached to their office space, where they sometimes isolate fosters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Samsung did a lot of work to minimize the crease—the dip between the two halves of the big interior display—but it’s still clearly there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Her family said she was "one of a kind" who "lived fully, fiercely and never did anything by halves".
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
The chart above shows that, much of the time, the two halves of this hedge tend to rise and fall together.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
With the butcher knife Ma cut the big, orange-colored pumpkins into halves.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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