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Trading firms have long bought oil-and-gas fields, refiners and power stations to complement their trading activities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
What a long, strange hero’s journey it’s been.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
But with the domestic season just starting to get interesting, fans tend to bemoan the interruption - no matter the length - and long for the return of club football.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
What happened to your friend is an all-too-common occurrence, and Medicare can foot the cost for necessary inpatient rehab, as long as its eligibility requirements are met.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
Just as we’re making camp, after a long trek, he’ll arrive with dinner.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Natalie said the popularity of disposable nappies might be a reason why parents often wait longer to potty train.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Today, Americans are living and working longer, and yet prevention hasn’t caught up.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
The mayor of the town of Shelekhov, home to around 40,000 people and where the patient was hospitalized, said the local hospital had been placed under quarantine and was no longer accepting patients.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Much of the previous research has examined the effects of regular exercise over longer periods.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 5, 2026
“It’s just for a bit longer, Lexie. I promise. Just till I can afford to hire someone.”
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
She encountered a queue that ballooned to over 80,000 people—the longest in the museum’s history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
The position goes to whoever has had the longest run on the council without being president.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
If the streak continues for an eighth week, it would be the longest on record for the RSP going back to at least 2003.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
"This is the longest lasting prompt X-ray flash ever observed from a neutron star merger," said graduate student Niccolò Passaleva, who led the follow-up observations using the VLT in Chile.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
But I picked the record for longest time spent tap dancing without stopping to break—seven hours and thirteen minutes.
From "Zara’s Rules for Record-Breaking Fun" by Hena Khan
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