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After an uneasy ceasefire took hold in early April, satellite imagery showed little new damage to bases.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
The drier and warmer theme has also taken hold in India, where the essential monsoon rainfall has been 13% below average.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
It would take “an especially hot CPI report” to trigger a change in expectations for rates to stay on hold in October, said ING economist James Knightley in a note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Hartnett’s work is dynamic and unsettling, making what could be a forgettable tertiary character into an integral part of the story that viewers hold in the back of their minds, even when he’s offscreen.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026
The trouble is that these phantoms are hard to displace, once they take hold in our minds.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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