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Following a mass shooting at Brown University last year, officials urged the public to stop sharing such images out of concern that it would slow down the investigation and search for the suspect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The mass enrollment effort could “give every American child the opportunity to build generational wealth and jump-start their financial future,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
"Glaciers are complex because they gain mass at the top and they flow downstream, so there is a lot of physics," explained Maussion.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
That means if an AI company faces a mass tort and runs out of money, its shareholders should have to pay.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
A tank rumbled down the street, a mass of menacing metal.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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"If these ice masses can be saved or stabilised, we can limit the rise of global sea levels… which could affect billions of people living along the coast."
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
He also understood why PCs were primarily used by techies and dismissed by Wall Street: There wasn’t a piece of software compelling enough to convince the masses that they needed a computer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
But, like many luxuries, as they became more popular and more accessible to the masses, the wealthy began pivoting – a textbook example of behaviour known as "counter signalling", Rudolfo says.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
Burnt-sienna vines twist through simmering ocher air, while flora sprout through these roiling masses in hues of chromium oxide and cadmium green.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
The sigil grows bolder and brighter, and the webbed masses from the ceiling begin unwinding toward the floor.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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A day before that incident, hundreds of masked protesters massed in Dover, further east, briefly blocking access to the town's busy Channel port to demonstrate against migrant crossings.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
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
Then, thousands of football fans had massed to watch the evening matches.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
But as U.S. warships massed near the Middle East and rumors swirled of huge trades for pricier oil, Hosseinzadeh saw one risk that loomed large.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2026
“For half a mile along the splendid sweep of the Lake-Front men were massed a hundred deep,” the Tribune reported.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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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
A passing taxi driver leaned out of his cab window, alerting them to a group of rowdy white youths massing nearby, which sounded like a lot more fun to them.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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