lobby
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At 235 W. 23rd St. in Manhattan, the lobby is similarly spartan.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
Guests check in at a designated host stand in the museum’s main lobby and are then whisked to a separate elevator for Skywalker Grill.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
You leave the high vaulted plaza—Roman in its sense of amplitude, an oculus high above—and turn right to enter the lobby.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Webb has been part of a working group set up to lobby to get the rules relaxed, to eventually enable the audio to be played live.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
She’s writing in her notebook that matches mine as she waits in the lobby.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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“Unlike apartment life, townhouses offer the freedom of full independence: no shared walls, no coop boards or common lobbies, no neighbors above or below,” it reads.
From MarketWatch ● May 6, 2026
Visiting small towns, Mr. McCarthy strikes up conversations with men in bars and hotel lobbies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
On Dubai's artificial island, empty beaches stand in stark contrast to frantic hotel lobbies, where stranded tourists have taken shelter as they wait for a way home.
From Barron's ● Mar. 2, 2026
Universities UK, which lobbies on behalf of more than 140 universities, has been approached for comment.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026
Her front room reminded me of fancy hotel lobbies from the movies, there was so much silk and lace.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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His brother Gurpreet Singh Johal has lobbied successive governments calling for his brother's release.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
He lobbied on behalf of the Kazakhstan Embassy and that country’s state-owned national oil and gas company, records show.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026
The Brazilian billionaire who shares control of JBS, the world’s largest meatpacker, lobbied President Trump to lower tariffs on beef imports as a way to tame rising U.S. prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Film industry advocates lobbied hard for a carve-out, saying the cap would undercut gains made under the current film and TV tax credit program at a time when Hollywood has been reeling from job losses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Hamilton lobbied his Federalist colleagues in the House to support Jefferson over Burr for the presidency, a decision that probably had a decisive effect on the eventual outcome.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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Nexstar had done its own lobbying to state attorneys general.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Instead, Blythe chose honey over vinegar and launched a lobbying effort to convince state legislators and the governor that the town needed some kind of economic rescue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
Warren also raised questions about Taylor Farms’ political contributions and lobbying, though her letter did not establish that those connections altered the government’s response.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
Digital titans including Amazon, Apple and Meta spent 73 million euros on EU-focused lobbying annually, the same report said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
He began lobbying officials there to include the various second-line antibiotics on their list of “essential drugs”—a list that the ministries followed and allocated money for in their budgets.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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