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You could keep it if the tenant/landlord doesn’t have an answer or, if you feel generous, donate it to charity or — as an act of faith — leave it for the cleaner.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
The company’s second-ranking executive, product and business chief Fidji Simo, said she was stepping aside last month after going on medical leave in the spring.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
However, as an incumbent congressman running for reelection, he would leave his House seat vacant for months if elected to the Senate.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
Children at English primary schools with more pupils on free school meals are less likely to leave able to swim 25m, BBC research has found.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
It was a Nation crime to leave even a few crumbs behind.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
These risks can be managed, but the time to prepare is now—before the genie leaves the bottle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
“They eat the leaves of the nightshade, but that would be death for you or me . . . It’s a puzzle,” she warns her daughter Jaehaera in a Season 3 episode.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
That leaves you with enough money, roughly, to 90, and then you’d have only your guaranteed income to fall back on.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
Which leaves the possibility of a candidate standing against Infantino next March.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
The leaves is flowing down the crick Like cider from the press, And when the first frost’s coming Is anybody’s guess.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
Curly Leafed Collards: Those curly leaved varieties Smith mentions can make them look more like kale than the large, smooth leaves we typically think of with collards.
From Salon ● Jan. 27, 2023
“As soon as all the trees leaved out, I was like, ‘I’m staying forever,’” she said of spring’s recent start, singing those last few words in a soprano vibrato.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2022
Want to try out this delicately leaved vine?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2020
The etchings’ chief subject is nature’s bounty and mysteriousness, manifest in big, densely leaved trees and densely treed hillsides.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2013
He wiped a tear that was falling down his cheek, said: “You the first person who never leaved me.”
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
Later, asked why reporters had had to close their window shades when leaving Turkey, Trump failed to mention that he had switched flights.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
School performance ranged from no pupils leaving Year 6 able to swim 25m to others meeting the target at 100%.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
That means leaving certain markets and trimming benefits, rather than chasing subscriber gains.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
Many are already running at very high utilization rates to meet demand while compensating for disruptions in the Middle East and Russia, leaving little spare capacity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
The fog engulfed them, leaving the empty hillside mocking him.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Cook, decided the same day, the court recognized the unique standing of the Federal Reserve Board but left its independence in a precarious state.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
I do the same with a water bottle at home and it’s just as cooling — instantly — but the rose water’s delicious scent left me feeling especially pampered.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
U.S. officials allegedly devised the ruse after they became concerned about an Iranian threat to target Trump as he left Turkey, which borders Iran.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
That brings the unknown, particularly after Newcastle lost key players Anthony Gordon, Sandro Tonali and Bruno Guimaraes this summer, which Jaissle said has left a "vacuum".
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
They’d left a life in Japan and had no idea what they were doing in Taiwan in the first place.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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"Growing Together" and "When I Grow Up"
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"The Tragedy of Hamlet," Vocabulary from Act 3
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Spelling Practice 2, Unit 5
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