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“But at the end of the day, we didn’t meet the standard.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
The numbers are the highest since October 2025 and have raised questions over whether the NHS will meet a government target of treating 92% of patients within 18 weeks by 2029.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Having spent $8.28 billion in the first half, Tesla would need to spend more than $16.7 billion in the second half to meet that forecast.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
They’re performance-based: whatever carmakers can do to meet the standards is suitable, including new technologies in gasoline-powered cars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
After perhaps half an hour of visiting among the tables, the foreman reminded us that we had a day’s quota to meet and people drifted back to their places.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Maybe joins a book club and meets some fellow bibliophiles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
OPEC+’s monitoring committee, which meets Sunday, might leave production policy unchanged while security around Middle East supply flows remains uncertain, the analysts said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
"Having a fleet that meets our needs at both national and European levels... is essential," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
"I like the fact that it is 'human crow meets golf caddy meets the Artful Dodger'. We're pretty happy with it," she joked about this year's outfits.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
This guy with gray hair and a Santa Claus smile meets us in the waiting room and takes us to the small chair-circle room we were in Monday.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
He routinely met a hostile premise with calm facts, a sharp answer and a smile that made the host’s irritation look frivolous.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026
"I know I'm biased because she was mine, but she was the best human I've ever met," says Aaron John Huxter of his daughter Olivia-Grace.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
In doing so, he ensured the phone booth met the minimum threshold of a call a week to stay in service another year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Speculation intensified last week after Tugay met Erdogan at the presidential palace in Ankara.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
“What happened before I met you had nothing to do with how I . . .” Feel about you or felt about you, I wasn’t sure which to say.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
Policymakers didn’t make an urgent case for another rate increase at their upcoming October meeting, reports my colleague Matt Grossman, who covers economics for The Wall Street Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
The UN-sponsored global climate summit -- known as COP31 -- will be held in Antalya next month, following a "pre-COP" meeting in Fiji and Tuvalu, which wrapped up Thursday.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
The BBC understands a government meeting next week will provide further details to local authorities about this funding.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
But it’s hardly unusual for government regulations to prompt industries to modernize, or for manufacturers to claim that meeting the rules is impossible or unduly expensive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
In the evenings we held a clandestine prayer meeting for as many as could crowd around our bunk.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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