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Before it paused after Season 3, it had become the most-watched original streaming series across all platforms and the first Apple TV show to cross the billion-minute mark in a single tracking week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
There are a number of community events happening across Yorkshire to mark the occasion:
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
The plan would mark the first new oil and gas leases in federal waters of the Pacific Ocean in more than four decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
These screens in stasis, not airing programs but not broken, punctuate black history with a question mark, leaving us to wonder what its next chapter will be.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Turns out Dad arranged for them to come with a cake for me to mark my birthday properly, even though I don’t turn sixteen until after Christmas.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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As Japan marks the anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombs, its leaders are pushing for a renewed debate on nuclear weapons in a challenge to the nation's long-time pacifist stance.
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
Her dermatologist found three more cancerous marks which needed urgent treatment.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Their yearly reproduction depended on elusive environmental factors, the author writes, “unlike other extractive industries such as tin or jade, where ‘X marks the spot’ could hold over a period of years or decades.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
One examined bite marks preserved on dinosaur bones, offering physical evidence of interactions between the giant crocodilian and dinosaurs.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
It was no different than the puckering smallpox marks or old surgical scars I found on other bodies.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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This year marked the first time Belfast had hosted the event and it is thought this could end up being the biggest Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann ever.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
The country marked the 81st anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing on Thursday and will do the same on Sunday to commemorate the attack on Nagasaki.
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
In their 2025 regulatory filings, neither company marked those loans as affiliated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
U.K. pay growth has slowed sharply and has now returned to around pre-COVID levels, a marked contrast with economies such as Japan and the eurozone, where wage pressures remain more persistent.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
He opened the silver case and pulled out a vial marked XUHET.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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Shares were up 15.8% when the market closed on Friday, marking the stock’s largest one-day percentage increase since SpaceX’s first full day as a public company on June 15, according to Dow Jones Market Data.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
Total exports jumped 13.1% in the second quarter, marking the strongest quarterly increase for the country since the third quarter of 2020.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
This is the starting point for deciding the final grade boundaries, which are set at meetings in June and July after marking has been completed.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
South Korea's professional baseball league was also forced to cancel one game in Changwon after the city's temperature climbed to 39.5 degrees Celsius during the day, marking the second consecutive game cancellation in the city.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
With the French army marking time, British general Haig was convinced that the outcome of the war depended on the armies under his command.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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