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open

[oh-puhn] / ˈoʊ pən /










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Rose was invited to open for Olivia Dean’s arena tour.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

As of the end of July, the Treasury Department had processed 5.6 million forms to open the accounts, or less than 8% of eligible children.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

The key, he said, is picking things that are genuinely iconic, or that “really open into something.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

He insisted his officers were keeping an "open mind" and considering "every possible angle" in the security scare, including the possible role of "proxies" working knowingly or unknowingly for a foreign state.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

All the rooms are soundproof, but sometimes students leave the door open, just to get some air or show off how well they are playing.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Meliá Seychelles Meliá’s first Seychelles property opens on Mahé this year with the country’s first rooftop bar.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Ramsdale also believes there is a route back into the first team for him at St Mary's and is willing to fight for his place until at least January, when the winter transfer window opens.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Paris Women's Fashion Week opens Monday with a debut show from South African brand MaXhosa Africa and a fresh collection from new-ish Canadian trendsetters Matieres Fecales, look to lift the gloom surrounding the sector.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

When it opens next year, it will be a game changer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

The back door opens, and Teddy bursts in.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

Months after the ride opened in 2002, it had to be closed to repair design flaws.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

Australia opened up its economy and encouraged business and trade, Chinese President Xi Jinping was invited to address parliament.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

The German discount store opened its first in-house pub this summer in Belfast’s eastern suburbs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Biles opened up about the health scare in a post on her Instagram Stories, sharing an image of her wrist covered with hospital bands.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

Smoke poured through a small circular window, which had just been opened.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

Swimmers never attend opening ceremonies, Evans retorted when Billy Payne, president and chief executive of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games, asked her to run the penultimate leg of the torch relay.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

Instead, he said, beginners may be better off opening a card with transferable points.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

"This is the day we take back the keys to our own house," Mines Minister Yacouba Zabré Gouba said at the opening.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Positioned inside the moving vehicle and zooming in, Ray’s camera captures what becomes a blur of foliage, trunks and limbs before the opening credits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

I looked, and saw Karli’s eyes opening, and then he was coughing and choking, the water was spurting up out of his mouth onto the kitchen floor.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo




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