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[keep] / kip /






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I’m not sure it’s worth the time out of your life to keep engaging with this man-child.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

But he says the market pounding “serves as inspiration and motivation. We’re just going to keep innovating and putting the points out on the board. You can only beat it by consistently delivering results.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

“Today’s a bad day, but as long as we stay positive, keep going,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Ofcom, the official regulator for broadcasting and the internet, says it is the responsibility of tech firms to keep children safe online.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

I use all my strength to keep the nothingness at bay, long enough to follow her gaze.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Citi, however, keeps its buy rating, citing pipeline progress, including the ramp-up of its stroke drug Puyouke and new product launches.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

It certainly keeps advisers, lawyers, doctors, therapists, courts and prisons in business.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

Nevertheless, it offers a new perspective on how physical activity influences the nervous system that keeps the heart functioning.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

There’s something freeing about exorcising negativity through song that keeps people coming back.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

It keeps talking, like a boat motor with no shut-off valve, saying more stuff I want him to know, even though most of me knows he doesn’t care.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

As the region grew up around it, a concrete plant in West Hollywood kept churning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

For FICO, the hits have kept on coming.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026

She says it is why she kept her distance and also why she didn't bring her children to him, including when she moved to the United States with her family.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

If you’ve kept debt low, kept housing reasonable and kept saving, financial independence in your 50s may be closer than you think.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

“Sure,” I said, recognizing that I already kept the two sides of my life neatly separated.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

“The water was warm all year off of Southern California, but the El Niño is now enhancing that and keeping it warm, where naturally it would drop,” Flick said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Arsenal have kept a clean sheet in five of their eight games, with no team keeping more in the Premier League this season.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

The data validates the "BOK's upbeat assessment ... that booming demand for chips is keeping exports and investment strong", said Kwon Hyo-sung of Bloomberg Economics.

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026

A miserable housing market is keeping appliance-shoppers on the sidelines, and Whirlpool WHR -5.91%decrease; down pointing triangle is paying the price.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

“You’ve mentioned that before, so I started keeping track. It turns out I breathe every day.”

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows


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