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And a "Stop Smart Glasses" campaign in Britain and Ireland has launched a petition and call for supporters to contact stores to stop their sale.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
Two innings later, the Dodgers took the lead again, rewarded for hard contact as the Brewers’ defense showed its first signs of sloppy play.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Instead, it folds into an intricate three-dimensional arrangement, allowing sections that are far apart along the DNA sequence to come into close physical contact.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
Think of a scale from one to 10, where 10 is full contact between parent and child and one is none.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
She jumped about a foot at my contact, her curly brown hair whipping across her face as she turned terrified green eyes up to meet mine.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that he couldn’t share any comments regarding the announced energy ceasefire as contacts continued, according to Russian state news agency TASS.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Once TCIP3 brought the proteins together, they formed several additional chemical contacts with one another.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
"More than 90 percent of contacts have completed medical observation," it added.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
They are also trying to trace 57 other contacts of the Kenyan patient after he travelled from the Democratic Republic of Congo, dying in hospital in Nairobi on Monday.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Isaac Granger offered vivid pictures of the ties between servant and master, the intimate daily contacts they had with each other.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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In an attempt to find the mysterious Bill Jones, The Wall Street Journal contacted current and former Navy officials, lawmakers, White House aides and industry executives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
The business said it had contacted Clarkson privately in hopes of resolving the disagreement.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026
The spokesperson says many people had contacted them about the tiger and he was safe and well.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
Unlike other states, California requires that rental agencies wait to turn on GPS tracking until the vehicle return deadline has passed and the renter has been contacted by the company.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
Later that afternoon, after running more web searches that didn’t yield anything, Brandon said, “I’ve been thinking...your grandma wasn’t the only person who got a letter. Parker contacted four other people.”
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
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Aubry noted she last spoke to her brother a day after the alleged September incident and that he did not seem upset, and that the current restraining order prohibits her from contacting her brother.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
According to the order reviewed by The Times, Berry is prohibited from contacting Martinez, 60, and their son Maceo beyond the terms of her August 2023 split-custody agreement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Hirst also made a restraining order which prevents McEvoy contacting the children.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
“We thank the researchers for contacting us and sharing their findings. We narrowed the permissions on Community sign-in tokens and revoked affected tokens and sessions,” the company said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
He went out on a promotional tour to gather a cast of thousands, contacting four hundred friends, mostly movie people, and talking them into coming to the track to cheer his horse on.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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