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Jack had reached for a vol-au-vent, swallowed it whole in one bite, rinsed it down with a glass of champagne and seized center stage all in one action.
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2026
In his short tenure as owner, the team said goodbye to LeBron James, gave Austin Reaves a long contract extension, traded for impact center Walker Kessler and signed several complementary players.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
Like all mass-produced road vehicles, the Maverick depends on a digital interface, by way of two modest screens, including the center touch screen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
The proposed center in Nodaway County, about 40 miles from here, would use municipal wastewater in a closed-loop cooling system that, according to the project website, requires an initial 1.5 million gallons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
He moved the heavy, wobbly old wardrobe away from the wall with surprising ease and pulled my bed into the center of the room.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Ford Motor is looking to data centers to repurpose excess production capacity for electric vehicle batteries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Take the construction of data centers vital to the future of AI, not to mention a constantly improving internet and better cellphone service.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
“If we can get more units out, they’re asking us to give them more,” Caterpillar Chief Executive Joe Creed said of data centers during the company’s second-quarter earnings call with analysts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
These data centers are housed in huge new buildings, stuffed with massive heat-generating computers and cooled by big banks of air conditioning.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
Parents of Truman students work at warehouses and call centers, and some supplement their incomes with shifts at fast-food restaurants.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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California’s law was passed following a large measles outbreak centered at Disneyland that resulted in 131 cases in California alone, and spread to six other states, as well as Canada and Mexico.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
A recent flare-up, in late July, centered on the issue of transgender players.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
For many years, the debate centered on two main possibilities.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
The former public health director has stuck to a platform centered on affordability at home and an end to foreign entanglements.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
At first it centered in Persephone who also rose from the dead every spring.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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Hershey Pa.’s Christian Pulisic set up a sequence that led to a Paraguay own goal, and then, not long after, zipped a centering pass to the 24-year-old Balogun to make it 2-0.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
Going into the tournament there was a lot of talk centering on how Aronimink could prove too easy for the world's best.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
This time, instead of centering around the private sector, a Treasury crisis could hamper the government’s ability to finance itself.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 16, 2026
The vivid language of the novel ‘Playworld’ evokes the carefree early ’80s, centering on the freedoms and seemingly low-stakes perils of their Manhattan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026
When work resumed, the flying buttresses of the choir were completed and the centering was readied for the first stones of the vault.
From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay
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