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Siegel’s engineers constructed the underlying systems that enabled those trades to happen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
"But should that happen I would still see it as just a game. At the end of the day you can't cheat with lines of code."
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
If any law enforcement happens to be reading this, I want to make it clear that will never happen.
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026
One project uses the microscope to observe interactions among plant cells, fungi, and bacteria as they happen.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
But I will tell you because I want you to know the story as it happened, not simply as I would have wished it to happen.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
If this happens, then gales and disruption could be expected more widely with impacts also in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
If any law enforcement happens to be reading this, I want to make it clear that will never happen.
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026
The biggest question now is what happens if the SPY-to-RSP ratio falls back below 3.4, and below the neckline of the triple top?
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 18, 2026
I thought I must get it to New York before something happens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
There is no argument about what happens next.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
The president of France's lower house of parliament, Yaël Braun-Pivet, says she wants to open an inquiry into exactly what happened this weekend and why.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
“That has never happened before, not in wars or pandemics.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
“Police activity happened on the outskirts of the event,” organizers told ABC 7.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026
"What happened here is what we are seeing in many cities around the world," he told Ansa.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026
It so happened that about that hour was the normal time to give water to their mules.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
"But it was so planned and secretive that nobody could tell what was happening inside."
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
These improvements prompted the researchers to examine what was happening inside the animals' kidneys and brains.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
"It is important that everyone in America also sees what is really happening," Zelensky said on social media.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
And it is important that everyone in America also sees what is really happening.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026
I can’t cling to my people because my mother—my main person —is part of the terrible thing happening.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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