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Or the city could sell the entire stadium site to the highest bidder, with no requirement that the winner keep a ballpark on the property.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
The question is, can robots keep people coming back?
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Heilbroner, a past president of the Hancock Beach Association, said the purpose of the association isn’t just to keep people out, but to preserve the beach.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
On Wednesday, Sullivan issued the jurors a last-resort, so-called "dynamite charge" that encourages them to keep discussing in a bid to break the impasse and avoid a mistrial.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
Mom only let us keep him because Calvin said he’d already named him.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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Smaller and scruffier than the annual film events of Venice, Toronto or New York, the four-day festival has no competition or juried prizes and keeps its lineup secret until the last minute.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
The deal will be a "major victory for innovators and consumers worldwide" if Nvidia keeps Hugging Face open and accessible, he added.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Researchers will continue monitoring Saturn to see whether the southern decagon becomes a stable, long-lived feature like the northern hexagon or keeps changing.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
Beijing keeps tight control over media access and information, and foreign journalists are restricted from reporting in Tibet.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
A boy eager for the approval of his father, who keeps a sketch pad in his rucksack and draws plants and landscapes by starlight.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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Patricia Gathoni said if the prices kept going up she would have to rethink what she gave her children, saying she had resorted to adding water to the milk that she managed to buy.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Jack Dreyer kept things stable with a clean ninth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
For a decade, Mr. Daniels kept tuition in check, promoted free speech and intellectual diversity, and opened the campus to in-person teaching when many other schools resorted to pandemic lockdowns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Hugging Face has nonetheless kept strong ties to France.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
I stumbled into an old journal Grandma kept back when she was my age.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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His goal at Tottenham in March was crucial in Forest's 3-0 win, giving them the platform to survive and keeping Spurs sweating on their top-flight status until the final day.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
It’s in keeping with the spring-through-summer obsession with other topics that blare a disconnect from average concerns, say a $400 million, 90,000-square-foot, gilded ballroom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Investors are keeping tabs on Tokyo after a spike in the Japanese yen stoked speculation of more intervention by authorities.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
Ponce added a whiteboard at the intersection keeping count of how many days had passed since the previous crash.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Not with all the stuff that’s keeping both Nate and me busy.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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