anchor
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I’d also refrain from comparing him with your other direct report; they are different people with different aptitudes, and one performance doesn’t need to anchor the other.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
Tart, who signed a three-year contract extension in January, is the anchor in the trenches after starting in 17 games last season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
Splash opened in 1991 and closed in 2013, serving for 22 years as the anchor of gay Chelsea.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
Fox News has parted ways with longtime anchor Maria Bartiromo, the cable news network said Thursday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
The National Core Standards for music takes the details from each of these anchor areas and breaks them down into specific, individual standards for use by each grade level.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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This image of hero worship anchors Walter Thompson-Hernandez’s staggeringly lovely “If I Go Will They Miss Me,” an indie take on the perennial saga of lost men struggling to return home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Globally, there are an estimated 150-200 cable faults a year, external, most caused not by saboteurs but by fishing, ship anchors, natural hazards and equipment failure.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
All told, the U.S. aluminum sector anchors roughly 700,000 direct, indirect and induced jobs, with over $228 billion in economic output.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
Ratings surged and anchors became just as popular as the celebrity athletes they covered.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
In the whipping and snapping branches of the trees, the buds rode it out head to wind, their bodies horizontal, their neat claws turned to anchors.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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He said that even if the Federal Open Market Committee decides to raise interest rates by a quarter-point on Wednesday, in an environment of strong earnings growth and inflation remaining anchored, stocks should weather it.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Brand says a delay could be building an extra, heavy door anchored into the ground, thickening the glass on display cases or using a fog machine.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Square footage of the shuttered San Francisco Centre, once the city’s largest mall and a thriving retail hub anchored by Nordstrom and Bloomingdale’s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Out back, the leafy grounds are anchored by a private swimming pool and spa, creating a secluded spot for relaxing and entertaining.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
Even from a distance, she could see the tent was anchored closely to the snow-cleared ground, the cloth tightly stretched without a wrinkle.
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
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World Trade Center downtown into a 512-unit complex anchoring a campaign to build 4,000 affordable apartments across L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
So does Rebecca Lowe, who has ridden that wave while anchoring the network’s Premier League coverage from the first season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Unlike virtual dark tourism that allows for “armchair travel” to real-world dark heritage sites, there is no physical location anchoring the Backrooms nor any historical tragedy to commemorate.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
He and four co-hosts rotated, with Bergstrom anchoring the prime hours and bleeding into some of the others’ time slots.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
Lyra saw that three witches were holding a rope looped around a rock, anchoring the great buoyancy of the gas bag to the earth.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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