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The black hole, therefore, is doing more than simply "feeding" on matter near the galactic center.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
In Saudi Arabia, local authorities were inspecting the aircraft and questioning both the crew and the passengers to determine what happened, two officials familiar with the matter said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
That may not matter much in the election, said Bruna Santos, director of the Brazil Program at the Inter-American Dialogue think tank in Washington.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Following his formal complaint, the company investigated and told Khan on 24 August there was evidence to support his claim and steps were being taken to address the matter.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
It doesn’t matter what it means, he told himself.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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What matters is whether the cost of borrowing is outpacing economic growth.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping concluded a summit on Friday, with their talks covering matters including trade.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
In a 30-minute vlog sharing highlights of the trip, Doncic was asked what matters to him now that didn’t five years ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
In a letter to colleagues, he wrote that the world was “in peril” and that at Anthropic “we constantly face pressures to set aside what matters most.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
Zita remained in Los Angeles for six weeks and stayed at the home of Robert Ellsworth, an attorney who helped Bobby with various legal matters.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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"People want to know that everyone's life matters, right? They want to know that Colleen's life mattered," she says.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
All that mattered was playing the character I wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
"Instead, we found that inhibiting the enzyme had little effect. What mattered was whether the protein itself was present."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
But then Webb, who is from Northern California, grew up with the rivalry and, as the longest-tenured Giant, pitched against the Dodgers in games that mattered.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
As real people with real feelings, Maggie and Elisha no longer mattered.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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Yet overall yield levels could start mattering a lot more in markets if the 10-year Treasury yield were to top 5%.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
"Several analysts argue that the second-quarter number itself may end up mattering less than what management says about the quarter ahead," said Axel Rudolph, a market analyst at IG.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
We’ll see several startling upsets in this round that won’t end up mattering, along with a disheartening number of 0-0 and 1-1 draws.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026
My father didn’t use the word mattering, but he protected it instinctively in retirement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 17, 2026
And he found himself thinking that maybe stories don't just make us matter to each other—maybe they're also the only way to the infinite mattering he'd been after for so long.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
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