climbing

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In his previous role as CEO of building-materials supplier CRH, shareholders cheered the hard-charging leader who built the company into a global force with a steadily climbing stock price.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

Evolution may be less like climbing steadily toward perfection and more like running after a world that keeps moving.

From Science Daily • May 29, 2026

He often gets bitten by bedbugs and walks with a cane, making climbing up and down from his bed difficult.

From Barron's • May 28, 2026

Despite "training five hours a day" and "running, walking, biking, stair climbing," she told the show she had no other choice but to "try something different".

From BBC • May 28, 2026

Most of the Housatonic’s 155 crewmembers saved themselves by launching lifeboats or by climbing into the ship’s rigging, which towered safely above the harbor’s shallow twenty-seven-foot depth.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler