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Zhang Xue wept with joy and furiously waved a Chinese flag as he watched his company's superbike scream across the finish line four seconds ahead of competitors in only its third world championship race.
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
Rangzen's livestream of his death shows a heavy-set man striding across a street in a traditional "chuba" robe and planting a Tibetan flag outside the UN.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
The most common red flag is an articulate comment that merely summarizes the post it’s addressing, Roth said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Externally, the move to trade away one of the league’s top scorers is seen as waving the white flag on yet another disappointing season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
When they put the American flag up, we knew we had lost Cleopatra’s Needle.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
A TikTok spokesman said its automated moderation systems flagged the livestream within minutes to the company's US moderation team for review.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
Cambridge launched an investigation into Arday’s qualifications after an academic flagged plagiarism in his 2015 doctoral thesis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
They flagged Hilton’s alarming livestream within minutes, closed other live streams within 90 seconds and banned the account, the spokesperson said, but its removal was delayed by what was characterized as “a moderator error.”
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
He saw me pull out of my driveway once and flagged me down to tell me I was headed for a blowout soon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
A few blocks later I flagged a taxi and went uptown, to 50th Street.
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
Kamakoti says AI could go further, automatically flagging suspicious behaviour - such as prolonged conversations between invigilators and candidates - so officials can intervene in real time.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
She endorsed the review as a necessary evolution of “a very important system that we benefit from here in California in a unique way,” while flagging what makes UC an outlier nationally.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
A spokeswoman for Meta Platforms, which owns the messaging app, said that across the world WhatsApp is increasingly restricting users from sharing forwarded content by flagging messages with labels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
From remote-controlled trucks delivering life-saving aid in dangerous settings to mobile phone data analysis flagging mass displacement, humanitarians are eyeing ways in which artificial intelligence can speed up and improve their operations.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
One morning when Ishmael was eight years old a pair of surveyors had showed up with their transits and alidades and knotted red flagging everywhere.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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