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Following a massive flood in northern Nepal and Tibet that left over 3,000 missing, China rejected claims that it could have provided Nepal with earlier warning of the deadly disaster.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Both companies reported some of their lowest ever amounts of free cash flow, a measure of how much money a business has left over after paying for operations and investments.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
‘That’s going straight to my student loans. If there’s some left over, maybe a cute little shopping spree.’
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
Its relative youth and proximity give astronomers an unusual opportunity to observe how newly formed planets interact with the surrounding disk of dust and debris left over from the system's formation.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
A triplet-based code had 64 combinations—enough for all twenty amino acids, with extra ones still left over to specify other coding functions, such as “stopping” or “starting” a protein chain.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
