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Half received a low dose of digoxin in addition to their usual treatment for an average of three years, while the other half received a placebo.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
Although teapots could source feedstocks domestically from state-owned powerhouses such as Sinopec and China National Petroleum, margins were thin and production capacity was low.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
“It’s a low probability, but the consequences are so enormous that you’ve got to factor it in,” said Jane Swanson, president of Mothers for Peace, a San Luis Obispo-based nonprofit, in a recent phone call.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
It is one of several measures that he is taking in a bid to ensure his small vineyard produces a decent crop despite a historically hot summer and low rainfall.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
I was low in my mind and supposed Dad didn’t notice.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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Bradnam said both were "lower than the 15 air changes per hour" he believed was required to protect staff.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
It’s a research-backed model for healthy eating, with wide-ranging health benefits like better brain and heart health, plus a lower risk of cancer and early death.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 16, 2026
Under the new federal plan, the lower basin could have to cut consumption by up to 40% from allotted levels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
"Calcium and phosphorus levels could also reach the lower end of their healthy ranges later this century."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
Camille stands, grunting and massaging her lower back like an old lady.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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That’s the lowest the SPR has been since 1983.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Projections now show levels staying just above “minimum power pool” through next March, when the reservoir is expected to be its lowest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
In June, they were thrashed by Zimbabwe, the lowest of cricket's 10-ranked Test-playing nations, in a one-off match in Harare.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
"And this is the lowest, the craziest level it's ever reached."
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
The investor in the top floor of the building received the lowest rate of interest but had the greatest assurance that his investment wouldn’t end before he wanted it to.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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“People see me on the court and they’re like,” he said, then lowed his voice to a whisper, “’Oh, my God!
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2022
The SCA later lowed its demand to $550m, but the owners and insurers reportedly offered to pay $150m.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2021
They fed us lentils cooked in onion and garlic and thin milk from the water buffalo that lowed outside.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2020
Charlie’s mother fol- lowed his voice to the kitchen, where she let him know that she and Charlie were home playing cards.
From MSNBC ● Oct. 22, 2014
The gods, moreover, made queer signs appear: cowhides began to crawl, and beef, both raw and roasted, lowed like kine upon the spits.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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You can hear a gentle lowing of cows.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2022
From its opening lonely trumpet, it gathers and gains; a lowing cello calls, and the orchestra responds.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 20, 2022
The American landscape, however, was no longer made up of trees and cows lowing plangently at dusk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2020
Behind us, the skyline of Atlanta hidden by the photographer’s backdrop — a lush pasture, green, full of soft-eyed cows lowing, a chant that sounds like no, no.
From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2018
From somewhere they could hear the lowing call of a cow.
From "The Fighting Ground" by Avi
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