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It is understood Arsenal are keen to avoid major refereeing decisions impacting on results and want clarity over how referee John Brooks came to his decision.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Among the Canadian firms keen on cash at the summit is Deep Sky, a Montreal-based company that develops carbon-removal projects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Richarlison, who saw a deadline day move to Everton breakdown, is understood to be exploring his options with sources indicting the 29-year-old is keen to be released from the remainder of his deal.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

Politics may be less keen on artificial intelligence as actor rather than adviser.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Duane was not keen on returning home the same way as he came because he feared that there would be more hellos to contend with from the hills.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

Dr Caulfield said she was "delighted” to see Róis “proudly performing her keens to full houses, with no shame or stigmatisation involved, just audiences loving her bravery and skill".

From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2025

Benjamin Wallfisch’s score keens and groans ominously, sometimes dipping into synthy electronic moments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2024

In gratitude, Page tattooed "c keens" – his nickname for Keener – on his body.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2022

She’s got a beaten-up suitcase at her feet and keens softly into her lap.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2019

The priests walk slowly around the pyre, saying antique prayers, and the crowd, all in black, ignoring the black priests, keens.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

And keener senses tend to make for more consequential experiences.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

Dior designer Jonathan Anderson appeared keener than most to take some risks.

From Barron's ● Jan. 25, 2026

The magic is unique and often biological—many characters have mental or physical enhancements that give them perfect memory or keener senses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

What they were keener to talk about was life in Henderson, a city they’d lived in and loved for a long time now—including for the MMA connection.

From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2024

Mr. Darcy’s shameful boast of what misery he had been able to inflict, gave her a keener sense of her sister’s sufferings.

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

The HMV store on Fargate in Sheffield then opened at midnight to give the band's keenest fans an early opportunity to get their hands on the album.

From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2026

Among the candidates for Fed chairman, Kevin Warsh seems keenest to abandon the current regime.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025

For our money, Jim is both the funniest and keenest politics writer in the United States—which is to say, readers, your long national nightmare is over!

From Slate ● Aug. 30, 2025

For five years it hosted the country's finest and keenest skateboarders, witnessing flips and tricks as a new subculture boomed in popularity.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2025

He would lie by the hour, eager, alert, at Thornton’s feet, looking up into his face, dwelling upon it, studying it, following with keenest interest each fleeting expression, every movement or change of feature.

From "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London

“My boy, my little boy, come home to us, my little boy,” she keened over the body.

From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2022

But whether the wind produced a lion’s roar, or merely keened or whistled or hummed, at its peak it was clocked by the National Weather Service at Reagan National Airport at 29 mph.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 29, 2020

While the violin lines of “Where Are U Now” keened behind him, his face was slick with sweat.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2015

As the truck made its way across the square, women and children spilled out of their houses, sat down in the dirt, and keened.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 12, 2015

But the way they keened their beaks forward and menacingly opened their wings made them look as though they might.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

Gilgamesh’s lament is not the stylized keening of epic tradition—not Achilles’ highfalutin howls after Hector strikes down Patroclus—but something rawer, humbler, more recognizably human.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

Only a handful of authentic keening songs were recorded from traditional singers, which Róis referenced on the record.

From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2025

Shift to Sport mode and the engine will hold at a high, keening rpm, trying to charge the battery faster than the driver can drain it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2025

He’s been lauded for sounding like a vestige of another age — his supple, keening tenor the result of years of apprenticeship to the Pakistani artists Ustad Saami and Farida Khanum.

From New York Times ● May 10, 2024

In the distance, the sound of keening began.

From "Messenger" by Lois Lowry