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Having started the day level at 8-8, Europe's quartet of rookies deserve huge credit.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
The bill would start to offer the credit at $1 of income.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
“He was writing this nonsense before The Times even had a website. Don’t give him credit for being savvy. He actually believes what he writes because he’s a simpleton.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
CEOs can’t take credit for the successes of A.I. while avoiding the negative externalities.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
Inside of three years, credit default swaps on subprime mortgage bonds would become a trillion-dollar market and precipitate hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of losses inside big Wall Street firms.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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Margolius credits building community trust and bolstering federally qualified health centers for expanding access to vaccines.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
The combat kept me hooked the whole way through the game, which took about 20 hours to get to the end credits.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Instead, it is leasing it to the private developer, which is using low-income housing tax credits and private financing to build hundreds of housing units for homeless veterans on the property.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
He credits living frugally in all aspects of his life with allowing him to stow away enough savings to retire at age 55.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Van glanced out the window, into the seminary, a Mormon teaching center where students are allowed to spend a period each school day learning the gospel and earning credits toward seminary graduation.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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In the windswept village of Doonbeg on Ireland's Atlantic coast, Donald Trump is less polarising US president and more golf resort owner credited with bringing jobs and money to a remote corner of the country.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
He credited the artificial-intelligence build-out as well as the growing need for energy, even excluding the run-up in oil prices due to the war in Iran.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
Bunch is also credited with gathering private donations to pay for half the museum’s $540 million cost, with Congress fielding the rest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
The concept of electromagnetic radiation originated with him and is credited as paving the way for Einstein's special theory of relativity.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Several decades later, borrowing from this technology, Henry Ford credited the meatpackers for the idea that led to the invention of the automobile assembly line.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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Instead of collapsing, Salesforce last month reported better-than-projected sales and profits, crediting AI for an assist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Several of his Carolina team-mates were in attendance for his first-round win, with Samuel crediting their "fighting energy" with helping him "get the job done" against Machac.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
WPP shares surged after the advertising group said its key top-line metric fell less sharply last quarter, with CEO Cindy Rose crediting her turnaround plan with driving a run of account wins, Adrià Calatayud writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
While crediting Spahn with helping the CDU return to power, the chancellor added: "Credibility is the most valuable asset in politics."
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
For a moment the girls stared at Avelyn as if scarcely crediting her statement.
From For the School Colours by Angela Brazil
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