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House Republican leaders want to pass the framework next week before lawmakers leave Washington for a long summer break, leaving only a narrow window to complete the package before November.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
The seasonal bloom extended into the Bosphorus, the narrow waterway that runs through Istanbul and links the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
“There are certain people,” says curator Zoé Whitley, “who redefined what was a very narrow definition of American art, and Betye is absolutely one of them.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
Over the past two months, U.S. forces have helped more than 800 ships sail through the narrow waterway, the American military has said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
She hands me a long, narrow black box, the kind that a necklace would come in.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Seismologist Lucy Jones has a narrower definition, in which there are two earthquakes in the same seismic sequence within 0.4 units of magnitude of each other.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
But those alternatives are often narrower than the TPS program, so eliminating TPS will make many of its beneficiaries subject to imminent deportation, experts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Their focus is on a narrower question: Does consciousness have to depend on Earth-style biology?
From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 2026
The company announced a loss of 6 cents a share, compared with a loss of 28 cents a year ago and narrower than Wall Street’s expectation for a loss of 7 cents.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
The eyes were larger surely, the mouth narrower, the skin white and clear?
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
It’s important to appreciate that the students pressed for the narrowest, most modest ruling possible.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2026
Speaking to reporters on Monday, Trump said that de la Espriella had "won easily", even though his lead of 0.96 percentage points in the preliminary count is the narrowest in recent Colombian history.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
Its narrowest point is less than two miles wide, yet it must now accommodate roughly 440 ships a day—60% more than before the war.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
At its narrowest, the entire strait is about 33.5 miles wide.
From MarketWatch ● May 5, 2026
The judge’s was the one with the narrowest entrance passage and only two rooms beside the burial chamber.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Burrows modeled the notion of directing as a duty to truly bring a show’s cast and writing into people’s living rooms and lives, epitomizing the idea that laughter narrows the distance between strangers.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026
High blood sugar impairs immune function and narrows vessels that carry oxygen-rich blood, making it harder for skin to heal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026
The other thing is that it takes a larger narrative—in this case no-bid contracts—and narrows it down to something readers can understand.
From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2026
All of that together narrows the list to 50 stocks.
From MarketWatch ● May 27, 2026
The darker man narrows his eyes and studies Yolanda a moment.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
The Los Gatos-based company on Thursday narrowed its 2026 forecast to $51 billion to $51.4 billion from $50.7 billion to $51.7 billion, causing equity analysts to cut their estimates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
The researchers propose that the zones where carbon burial occurs have gradually narrowed over geological time as low-oxygen waters moved deeper.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026
The federal deficit as a percent of gross domestic product narrowed last year, but was still over 5% in 2025, according to government data, and is projected to jump again.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Gross margin, a measure of profitability on sales, narrowed to 54.2% from 54.7%.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
The prince narrowed his eyes, but let it drop.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
The narrowing wage-growth gap is likely the result of bigger pay gains for lower-income workers who have jumped to new jobs, they said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
“You still see a narrowing to the mean,” said Heath Einstein, vice provost of enrollment management.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
But MS Hwang, a research analyst at Counterpoint Research, said he did not see "evidence that the gap between suppliers' production capacity and customers' demand is narrowing".
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
The result has a major impact on the championship, narrowing Antonelli's lead over Russell to 25 points.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
This narrowing, which was above all a stripping away of identity, began weeks before she had even heard of Sister Drummond.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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