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She said Healthy Start payments were not increasing in line with inflation.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
Arman Tsarukyan and Mauricio Ruffy arrived at Crypto.com Arena with a five-round bout scheduled and key positions in the lightweight division on the line.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
So with the clock winding down and the game on the line, Chambliss wasn’t thinking about a national championship, or a Heisman trophy, or his suddenly soaring NFL draft stock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Soledad wanted to capitalize on the attention on Ossoff without crossing that line.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
Dr. Crowchild shifts straight in her chair across from me, her mouth a firm, pinched line.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
Across town, dozens of people lined up outside the South Whittier Library before its 10 a.m. opening, hoping to be among the first to snag the card.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Permission was also sought to play music along parts of the designated route lined with illuminated features depicting scenes from the Harry Potter franchise.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Paramount has separately lined up debt financiers to help pull off the leveraged buyout of Warner Bros.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Bats were lined up for the first innings while Bucknall explained some of beach cricket’s more unusual rules.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
I show them the construction paper I stapled around some lined notebook paper.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
Some economists see a silver lining to the global surge in borrowing costs: the economy is strong enough to handle them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Without proper treatment, the lining of the esophagus, which is the tube that carries food and water to your stomach, can be badly damaged.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
If there's a silver lining to be found in the ginkgo's troubles, it's that the campaign to keep it alive has brought the people of Buam-dong closer together.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Michel-Edouard Leclerc, head of the leading supermarket chain E.Leclerc, said "refiners are lining their pockets" while it is impossible for retail distributors to compete.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
Sometimes he’d want to play even when we weren’t in study time, like when we were lining up to go outside and he thought he’d come up with a particularly sly question.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
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Reading: Literature - Poetry - Introductory
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Reading: Literature - Poetry - Middle School
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Close Reading: The Art and Craft of Rhetorical Analysis (Chapter 2)
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