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Dan McSweeney, program director of the Morningside Heights Community Coalition, said his neighborhood advocacy group, which has already protested five times outside Columbia’s gates over the matter, is planning another demonstration this October.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
The Los Angeles Unified School District did not share why James was fired, calling it a confidential personnel matter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
The university said in a statement that the matter was referred to a "panel of trained faculty and staff" that issued "a range of sanctions, which included expulsions and suspensions from Cornell".
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter, said the upcoming price increases would likely affect “grocery-store-sized bags” of chips like Doritos and Ruffles.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
I know that nothing I say will matter anyway.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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“The Board takes these matters seriously and we plan to promptly take all required steps to implement all recommendations.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Understanding when and how this material is lost matters because gas is essential for forming giant planets such as Jupiter and Saturn.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
Reports this summer revealed intensely personal letters Harp sent Trump in 2023, including one telling him, “You are all that matters to me.”
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
In a 30-minute vlog sharing highlights of the trip, Doncic was asked what matters to him now that didn’t five years ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
For now, all that matters is that I follow Hannie’s instructions.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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"People want to know that everyone's life matters, right? They want to know that Colleen's life mattered," she says.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
All that mattered was playing the character I wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
No one seems to know who coined the term, but the label wasn’t what mattered; it was the idea that the military was hiding a device that could fix everything wrong with you.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
The dimensions of both the swellings and their narrow connecting segments mattered.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
She couldn’t think of anything to say, but that hardly mattered.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
If an edge case splits people roughly down the middle, it effectively stops mattering, he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
"Several analysts argue that the second-quarter number itself may end up mattering less than what management says about the quarter ahead," said Axel Rudolph, a market analyst at IG.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
We’ll see several startling upsets in this round that won’t end up mattering, along with a disheartening number of 0-0 and 1-1 draws.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026
Remove any of those, and the revenue numbers stopped mattering.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 5, 2026
But she’s loud and chirpy as she sings about not mattering to anyone.
From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
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