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Miguel Ángel Pérez Triano, the central government's delegate in Ceuta, addressed the revelations about the text messages the CNI had sent to his office the day before the mass crossing.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
The scan found a mass in her brain, and surgery revealed that to be a malignant brain tumor.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
“In the wild wake of the digital revolution, the art culture niche might be struggling, but mass culture is just about dead. The Lucas is where the bones are buried.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
“I have a good level of confidence in my conversations that we’ll have a critical mass of the right players to move this league forward.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
The more mass it has, the more gravity it exerts on the space around it.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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On Martha’s Vineyard, “beach keys” are the ultimate status symbol, giving affluent property owners entry to secluded stretches of sand that are off-limits to the masses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
The calculations also support an earlier finding that binaries with total black hole masses roughly above 109 solar masses dominate the predicted PTA signal.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
She wrote thousands of songs, but it was television that made her most popular ones, and her, accessible to the masses.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
During papal assignments, he submits possible designs and fabric swatches to the Vatican office that organises masses and other papal celebrations, the Office for the Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
For to preserve the old orthodoxy it would have been necessary to insist that the world’s land masses were confined to one hemisphere.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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The overall sound is highly dramatic, with massed voices, quaking beats, horses whinnying in the distance, and percussion that evokes the threat of a rattlesnake.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Playing on the title, it opens with a big gospel organ and a massed chorus, before a handbrake turn into lip-smacking rap.
From BBC ● May 8, 2026
A Yemeni military official told AFP that some 15,000 Saudi-backed Yemeni troops were massed in a border area but had not yet received orders to tackle the separatists.
From Barron's ● Dec. 27, 2025
Thousands massed in the Philippine capital on Sunday demanding accountability over a multi-billion-dollar infrastructure scandal that has seen scores of officials, lawmakers and construction firm owners accused of corruption.
From Barron's ● Nov. 30, 2025
And these were monsters, rearing to the sky, massed like a battalion, too beautiful I thought, too powerful, they were not plants at all.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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Tankers are already massing outside the Strait to fill up.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026
Thousands of Chinese fishing boats have been massing in geometric formations in the East China Sea, in coordinated actions that experts believe are part of Beijing's preparations for a potential regional crisis or conflict.
From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026
Now troops are massing near the border region, raising concerns that Ethiopia’s long-term ambitions will feed into a long-running conflict with ethnic Tigrayan rebels, who dominate the Ethiopian side of the frontier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 7, 2026
A fire had ignited high in the hills of Pacific Palisades, and smoke was massing over the bone-dry ridgeline.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2025
Seabiscuit rolled in, the fans massing by the sides of his van like snowdrifts.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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