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Hollywood never quite figured out how to make Turturro a conventional leading man and he wasn’t especially interested.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
Musk, the world's richest man, meanwhile said he would back a merger of SpaceX and Tesla, adding that the combination would be "a good idea".
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
In a game increasingly focused on structures, Ngumoha's raw ability to take a man on is what helps to set him apart.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
On a new episode of Death, Sex & Money, host Anna Sale talks with Hill about his tumultuous childhood and the support system that helped him become the man he is today.
From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2026
Each man or family can claim one hundred and sixty acres.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
The two men met in L.A. the following year and spent a day walking through the Getty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
About 95% were men and 70% were adults, with some suspects as young as 13.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
What’s funny, especially in retrospect, is how widely these men whiffed the point.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
The other five men - who also include a 22-year-old British national arrested in Westminster on 6 October - remain on police bail.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
I’ve never heard grown men talking as friends.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
“I travel through at least eight to 10 towns to reach Mogadishu. But we don’t count the towns, we count the checkpoints and who mans them,” Mr Diriye says.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2024
“Who mans the cameras?” posted parent Kris Cabby in the Facebook group Parents Supporting Teachers.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2023
Both CBP’s Office of Field Operations, which mans the official border crossings, and the Border Patrol, which covers the areas between the ports, saw record numbers in June.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 15, 2022
Regardless of who mans the edge, the expectations have been established.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 12, 2022
“That’s the conclusion of the testing,” he informed her—or rather it—and Eldon Rosen, who regarded him with writhing worry; the elderly mans face contorted, shifted plastically with angry concern.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
Domjan is aiming to make the first manned solar-powered flight into the stratosphere, which at Switzerland's latitude begins at around 10,000 to 12,000 metres, depending on climatic conditions.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
Europe has in recent years sought greater independence in space but has never sent a manned mission, instead relying on the rockets and capsules of Russia and the United States.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
Across the nation, they’ve set up safe spaces in schools, specialized classrooms that feel more like living rooms and that are manned by professional counselors trained in domestic violence intervention.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
Four of these so-called Collaborative Combat Aircraft will accompany a manned fighter to massively increase firepower but at just 20% of the cost of a piloted aircraft.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
It didn’t look like anything special, but it was manned by the Stoll brothers, and I shuddered to think what dirty tricks they’d schemed up.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
High school sports programs are filled with dozens of volunteers — manning the snack bar, taking tickets, helping provide security, cleaning floors, carrying equipment and taking statistics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
Arthur Britton was in Germany manning a checkpoint on the Oste River two weeks after the Nazi surrender when three Germans tried to cross the bridge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Federal troops were patrolling Mekelle and manning key institutions on Sunday, a local journalist told AFP, as communications were restored for the first time in more than a week.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
Díaz gave up a rocketed ground ball to Luis Lara, but Edman, manning second base, went to a knee to snag it for the second out of the inning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
Alarm bells sounded on the Argo II. Hazel's friends scrambled on deck, manning the catapults.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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