material
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Video from the scene showed the roads surrounding the building filled with firefighters and equipment, with crews spraying water into the piles of mangled metal and burning material on the lot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026
A weaker yen also bolstered revenues abroad despite higher material costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
Eight Mile Style “never authorized Suno to copy, reproduce, or otherwise use” its copyrighted material, yet the company “trained its AI model” on Eight Mile’s music, according to the lawsuit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026
He counsels aspiring writers to convert all of life into potential material.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
A warrior’s mother collects this material, makes the rope, and ties the arrows in a bundle.
From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola
The Dow Jones Transportation Average, which tracks shares of companies with vital roles in moving goods and raw materials, also added 3.1%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
Industrials and consumer-discretionary stocks surged, as did tech, materials and real estate.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026
The local governor said the blast happened around midday after a crane carrying a replacement boiler collapsed, causing materials to fall into a furnace below.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
Bringing these materials together ultimately made it possible to observe the unusual supersolid behavior at room temperature.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026
When the soldiers leave the room, he rushes past the pile of seized materials, grabs the diary, and hurries to the bathroom.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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