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Many people struggle with loneliness and lack of purpose when they leave their jobs, and the effects can be profound.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2026
We also delve into topics including the math of picking a health plan, how to leave a career without losing ground and the cruise where it’s Christmas all the time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026
With the clock ticking on his time in office, the governor said he also doesn’t want to leave with regrets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026
As Padam Singh and Tulsi count down the days, the handful of villagers around them leave one by one, until the couple find themselves alone in the vast mountain landscape.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
A nagging thought: What time does the bus leave here?
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Acting as her friend’s stand-in grants Minnie the confidence she never had but leaves Barbara out in the cold.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
That timeline leaves a limited window to evaluate potential solutions, develop a mission, and carry it out before the telescope descends too far.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
“This leaves the market vulnerable as it heads deeper into the European heating season.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
Every day, Babloo leaves home at 5am to take his children by metro to their old school in central Delhi, changing trains three times along the way.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
Along the left-hand side, the houses were mostly hidden behind trees, their green leaves still and silent.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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
The benches right at the water were all full, but one beneath a sparsely leaved young tree was empty.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
An escalating dirty-tricks campaign has rattled Europe this week, leaving government officials and company executives convinced a barrage of bomb threats and cyberattacks is coordinated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026
After the sentencing, her eldest son Sinan Mehmet said he and his siblings had believed their mother had abandoned them, leaving them feeling resentful.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
"These newly formed connections can integrate into existing neural circuitry and persist over time, leaving a lasting structural trace of psilocybin's effects on the brain."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026
And Chris Bishop, the minister for housing, infrastructure and transport, looks set to lose his Hutt South seat, leaving him out of parliament.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2026
‘You heard what they told us. We’re leaving everything behind once again. I’ve got nothing to lose now.’
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
The park’s vice president and general manager, Barbara-Lea Granter, also left the company as Six Flags moved to a regional operating structure centralizing certain responsibilities at the corporate level.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026
Not so impressive in his win over Zach Parker, it was a close fight so a lot of questions surround him and what's left.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
Consumers in the Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kyiv, Zhytomyr and Kharkiv regions were left without power, the energy ministry said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2026
These included fossilized pollen and larger plant remains, charcoal left by ancient wildfires, and chemical signatures preserved in the teeth and bones of plant-eating animals.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026
The giant left a note saying: "They shall not return to their natural shapes until the brave knight from La Mancha himself fights me."
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
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