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District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín said that the antitrust trial would begin March 2, much later than Paramount executives wanted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
Another season of USC football is about to begin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
Against Getafe's 5-4-1 shape, Spurs still begin with their two central defenders and two holding midfielders close to each other in the middle of the pitch.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Pant's trial, scheduled to begin on December 15, could become a key test as European nations step up action against Russia's shadow fleet.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
Now I’ve said that much, I hardly know where to begin.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
"My path really begins in that little church in Mondolfo in the Marche region, where, from the time I was a child, I would go with my mother to help clean that building," he said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
The results suggest that pesticides may continue accumulating in a colony even after exposure begins, especially once worker bees are no longer able to remove contaminants as effectively.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
The next round of federal campaign fundraising data will not be available until mid-October, just before early voting begins.
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2026
It added that Washington needs to immediately put mass production of precision missiles on a wartime footing because “waiting until conflict begins will be too late.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
He might have visited them already, in fact, but I won’t have a way of checking in with him before my evening shift begins.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
But after eight laps Norris radioed his team to say he had no rear grip and he began to lose time to the Mercedes and fall back into the clutches of Leclerc.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Mission San Francisco de Potano was abandoned in 1706, and physical traces of the settlement gradually disappeared from view until artifacts began to turn up in the 1950s.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
Soon after the war began in late February, China’s crude-oil imports fell sharply.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
St. John Bosco began its preparation to be hydrated and avoid cramps on Monday with constant reminders on taking fluids all week by athletic trainer Daisy Martinez.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
Her world consisted of this cubicle and the corridor outside—and soon I began to see the wisdom of this narrowed vision, and why prisoners instinctively shied away from questions about their larger lives.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Mothers on social media have begun sharing stories about their own postpartum mental-health struggles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Seizing the opportunity to turn Scotland's notoriously unreliable summer weather into a positive, the couple have begun marketing their cottages as coolcation destinations.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
The assumption was built into the feature: We have already begun shopping for you.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
The insurance company State Farm has begun sending checks to millions of policyholders as part of the company’s largest-ever cash-back dividend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
It had all begun when Clare was a very new Usher, so new, in fact, that he’d not yet adopted his beloved cloak-and-monocle disguise.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
The home side could not have wished for a more straightforward beginning to a new era as they look to move on from the chaos of the past year.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Now, that threat is beginning to take shape.
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2026
Cole said the indictments against the Sinaloa officials “were just the beginning of what is to come in Mexico.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Last night they danced all night long from the very beginning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
We knew that Willem had found hiding places at the beginning of the occupation for the German Jews who had been living in his house.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
