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“So a welcome pause from the main actors but a fragile one, especially with side battles still ongoing.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
The MAS uses the exchange rate rather than interest rates as its main policy tool because Singapore’s trade flows dwarf its domestic economic activity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
"It was the main station playing the music I grew up listening to. I connected to it, the songs, the language, the artists."
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
The main fire in the southwest Gironde region, where Bordeaux is located, was "extremely intense and unpredictable... generating its own winds and advancing erratically toward the Bordeaux metropolitan area", he said on X.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
It wasn’t unusual for some of the management staff to use the main elevators.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Common Core Grade 5, List 5
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