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But the clarification did little to quell the outrage.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

“It’s a little bit of an earlier start for us,” the reigning NFL most valuable players said, “but I think our body clocks will be right on and ready to go.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

For the iPhone 18 Pro, Apple Upgrade allows customers to pay as little as $34.99 a month across a 24-month lease.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

“I just worry that I’m flushing money down the drain a little bit as I kind of pay to a landlord,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

I dabble with a few other instruments: viola, violin, and a little piano.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

“It makes waiting for food less irritating,” said Gulati, who eats fast food several times a week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Now, hiring is much weaker than average and there is less pressure to recruit - giving employees less leverage to demand higher pay.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

Lehmkuhl was referring to a fire previously reported at the facility in 2024 that caused significantly less damage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

International aid to Afghanistan has dropped sharply, with the United Nations saying it had received less than 30 percent of the funding needed to provide life-saving assistance as of late August.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

But while the calls are fewer they can sometimes be sadder, odder, less routine.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

But he was outperformed citywide, leaving Palisades voters with a choice some liken to picking the lesser of two evils: Mayor Karen Bass or Councilmember Nithya Raman.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Irish boxing is going to be a lesser place.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

Robinson’s defense tried to have the death penalty taken off the table and reduced to a lesser charge of murder, which carries a minimum sentence of 15 years and a maximum of life in prison.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

"Large objects such as stars curve spacetime strongly -- for example, we can observe this when light rays are deflected by massive stars. But smaller masses also produce spacetime curvature, just to a lesser extent."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

There were quieter expeditions ashore, other days, with the Master Herbal who taught the ways and properties of things that grow; and the Master Hand taught sleight and jugglery and the lesser arts of Changing.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

The program included a little bit of everything, and the littler the bits, the better.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2025

"You wouldn't think there were that many places to hide but when Ramona was littler, I think she'd been in every cupboard in one of those trailers," says Drew-Honey, now 28.

From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2024

No surprise there—as the term accelerates toward a contentious finale, the tensions roiling major cases are bound to spill over into littler ones.

From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2024

Birch said he and his colleagues solved a "geometry problem" regarding how long it would take for the littler rivers to fill the deltas that the Perseverance and Curiosity rovers explored on Mars.

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2023

Instead she sat at the water’s edge, as she had done when Ess was littler, and watched the others jump and shout.

From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder

It is expected that this will continue to cause quieter conditions over the next week at least.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

The decision by the Department of Homeland Security to extend or terminate TPS typically has been made at least 60 days before the designation was set to expire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

Another major test for the market this fall: The IPO calendar is expected to heat up, with at least one blockbuster offering, from Anthropic, and other high-profile names expected to list, as well.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

The bank has been in discussions with prospective investors to raise at least another $1 billion round in venture capital at an $8 billion valuation, people familiar with the matter said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

I didn’t realize, until this moment, just how lacking I am in both, at least when it comes to the race stuff.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

The littlest Mac has gone viral as a cost-effective way for AI power users to run local large language models that can eat up dozens of gigabytes of RAM, aka memory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

"It's the littlest things that can trigger you. Even cutting a piece of fruit with a knife or seeing blood can be triggering; just normal, mundane things," she said.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2025

They separate the haves from the have-nots with astonishing pay imbalances we wouldn’t permit even in the littlest leagues.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2024

Caiazzo was part of a research team that in 2021 reported on one with a petite diameter slightly larger than Earth's moon that boasted the greatest mass and littlest size of any known white dwarf.

From Reuters ● Jul. 21, 2023

It was these tiny details that showed the littlest kingdom’s deep-rooted ties to its Oxscinian colonizers: it looked almost exactly like a copper kispe, except squints had square holes through their centers.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee