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This can add another layer of delay, which can have life-and-death consequences.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

The tax would start small — perhaps just 1% on the revenues, deductions and assets passed between entities — but would compound with every duplicative layer of ownership.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026

Coastal areas are typically spared the worst of heat waves, thanks to the cool marine layer and ocean.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

According to Dulli, the title came from a running list of possible titles he keeps on his phone, and isn’t meant as a hidden layer of meaning.

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026

Her green eyes in the sun look bluer than usual, a layer of gold over the top.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

She also suggests "adding layers of texture through cushions, throws and blankets" thinking about mixing materials like velvet, boucle or chunky knits.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Curry pressed a bewitching soulfulness through all those layers of spirit gum and latex.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

Common Ground aims to support people from disadvantaged backgrounds into work but she says one of the layers creating a barrier to them is accent.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

Other layers, however, may have been added along the north-eastern Adriatic coast, close to where the wreck was ultimately found.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026

Except for his tattered clothes and a few layers of dirt and grime, he looked as if he’d never fallen into Tartarus.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

In those earliest works using magazine transfers, Cowin layered disjunctive images, visually uniting realities that can’t easily be reconciled emotionally.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

High-density and layered concrete barriers can be useful around ground systems, power-generation units, ammunition storage facilities and barracks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

I studied the pastries while pretending not to listen: tea-infused buns knotted with candied citrus, laminated pastry layered with spiced cream cheese, craggy oat muffins dotted with boysenberry preserves.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026

Come 2028, the Democratic presidential campaign promises to be a banger, with all sorts of intrigue and subplots layered within a wide-open fight for the nomination.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026

I heard a number of sounds layered behind him—drums, a keyboard playing cosmic notes, and something low, like a saxophone.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

Saar’s dear friend, artist and jeweler Neil Lane, recalls how she taught him to collage: slowly layering papers with matte medium and, of course, saving every scrap.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

"At the Japan Trench, the geologic layering basically predetermines where the fault will form," said study co-author Patrick Fulton, an associate professor in Cornell University's Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

He changed it by creating a textured surface with color variations and what might be viewed as imperfections, and by layering three flags, in diminishing sizes, atop one another, that advance—or recede.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026

From the scaffolding, restorers have been meticulously filling in damaged portions of the frescoes and conservatively layering paint over bare sections with delicate brushes, their hands protected by gloves.

From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026

When each of those action units had been mastered, Ekman and Friesen began working action units in combination, layering one movement on top of another.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell