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At the dinner table, Wendy looks and acts more like one of the kids than their potential stepmother, especially when she makes Jack promise to make pancakes in the morning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
"When we looked at all of the risks, we felt it was important to make sure that we didn't have workers who we wouldn't be able to rescue if the worst thing happened to them."
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
That measure tracks how much revenue the company retains after incurring the costs required to make its products.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
“It doesn’t make sense anymore to fill storage where it used to be.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
“Yes. That flag should have been taken down long ago. And I’m here to help make that happen in any way I can.”
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
At the dinner table, Wendy looks and acts more like one of the kids than their potential stepmother, especially when she makes Jack promise to make pancakes in the morning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
The British adventurer makes her acrobatic moves against a background of realistic graphics, complete with her trademark sarcastic quips.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
That makes it easier to access needed cash, but it also can make it too easy to circumvent the overall investing plan.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
It’s rather depressing how many surprised people, upon meeting Simpson, are clearly delighted to do so; something in our “lizard brain” makes us react that way, says Mr. Mahr, and he’s on to something.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
And even though I am still messing up on the piece I’m practicing, just holding Grace makes me feel better.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
In an explanation about renaming Lake Ontario on its maps, Google said it made the decision because the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
In a Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll last month, only a third of Massachusetts primary voters said Markey’s age made them less inclined to support him.
From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2026
Employers would need to know what efforts the worker had made to get under the limit, why they did not manage, and what further help could be offered.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
This suddenly made slavery a personal issue for Northern whites and “thrust the slavery debate back into newspapers and pulpits,” Ms. Aptowicz observes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
I’ve made the mistake of missing his deadlines before, and he knocked on my door at one in the morning and made me get up to do the work.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
“Start making backup plans for wet events,” especially for Sunday through Tuesday, the weather service said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
With John Paul awaiting trial for cyberstalking and making false statements to federal investigators, and Mica’s family trying to pass legislation in her name, the doc seems set on rallying viewers.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
But he chafed against the strict dictums of the Eastern Bloc state and fled his native country in 1956, making his way to Paris by 1958, where he met Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
MPs returned to Parliament on Tuesday and Burnham spent more than three hours in the Commons, making a statement and answering questions from MPs.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Today, 79 percent of Filipinos are Catholic, making it one of the most Catholic nations in the world.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
