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Vance has said that he looks forward to being buried in that old cemetery himself, as will his children.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
If overheating from the artificial-intelligence boom spreads to the broader economy, he said, “that’s just a regular old central bank needing to respond to the business cycle. There’s no ambiguity of what has to happen.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
“You go to these beautiful old cities — then you go outside in the suburbs, and it’s like, ‘Oh no, this just looks like a cuter version of Californian suburbs.’”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
It was not long before Keira started to enjoy it more than anything else and she took part in her first competition at 11 years old.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
As the afternoon flies by, Parker’s expression goes from eager, hopeful puppy to sad, dejected old dog.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Trump pardoned the elder Kushner in 2020 and named him U.S. ambassador to France in 2024.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
Among them was Subash Khatani, scanning lists and speaking to officials in the hope of finding news of his elder brother, one of the hundreds unaccounted for after the disaster.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
The American great lost in the doubles with elder sister Venus at the Cincinnati Open on Monday in her first match since injuring her knee at Wimbledon.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Nasarenko said he was the beneficiary of a 2018 law that grants prison inmates who had served 25 years continuously and were over 60 years old an opportunity to seek elder parole.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Three Recruiters drove an Anishnaabe elder, female, to School #47E, the school closest to the Espanola settlement.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
Harp and her brother were close as young children but drifted apart as they got older.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
Hallaq's uncle, also named Mohammed Hallaq, told AFP that his nephew was killed by a stray bullet during a confrontation between the army patrol and a group of older youths.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
A different pattern appeared in the older group.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026
Haakon was ahead of his older sister, Princess Märtha Louise, in the line of succession.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
He would tell everyone proudly that he was the only one who could handle the elephant, that his older brother could not manage her at all, and certainly not his sister.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
On Aug. 13, cemetery officials along with members of the Inglewood city council gathered at Raker sisters’ burial site to commemorate the newly placed markers, the first for the eldest Raker sister.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
The Freeman’s middle children are just a little over a year older than the Heywards’ eldest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
The boys' father said: "We were in the hotel room when the eldest burst into the room. He was limping and there was blood everywhere after he cut all his feet leaving the spa."
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Their eldest might fail her final year after breaking a bone during her exams.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
France appeared on the knee of the eldest male child on the death of each father.
From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness
Axpo said the second reactor at the Beznau plant in northern Switzerland, Europe's oldest nuclear power plant still in operation, went back online Thursday.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
Together, they represent the oldest documented assemblage of insects known so far and help fill a major missing interval in the group's evolutionary history.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
Having been on the throne since 1991, King Harald is Europe's oldest head of state.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
The oldest surviving identification of Holbein’s drawing as Anne is a 1649 print by the engraver Wenceslaus Hollar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
Trembling, he climbed the ladder and took two of the oldest cheeses from their shelf.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
