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Or if they’d been hoping to see more competent football from their football team, they instead found themselves watching impressively inept football, with neither team scoring during the first half.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
The half marathon is in its 45th year and raises about £25m for charity each time.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
As for AI, nearly half of students in economically developed countries say they use chatbots every week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
So after the lettuce war room came the other half of crisis management: talking to people.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
Clare spent half his days tending to their whims, but they were a sweet little bunch—adorable, really—short pink stems topped by clusters of yellow buttons.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
"The amendment and the National Suicide Prevention Bill are two halves of one reform," said Taiwo Lateef Sheikh, of the Nigeria Suicide Prevention Advocacy Working Group.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
A few minutes after liftoff, its two halves will separate and fall away, allowing Roman to continue its journey into space.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
They led England off the field at Headingley hand in hand, hatching their plan to make one ball into two halves.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Guy and Bruno constitute the two halves of a single personality, the yin and the yang, the superego and the id.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
After all, in arithmetic, four quarters adds up to the same thing as two halves.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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Number and Operations: Fractions
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