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phase

[fayz] / feɪz /


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October 2008 was bad too, as stocks sank during the most acute phase of a historic global financial crisis.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 4, 2026

Santa Margarita High football coach Carson Palmer said special teams is the Eagles’ best phase of play.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Ford Motor’s shares slipped after it sold fewer vehicles in the quarter, citing the phase out of two of its models.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

In a report following the first phase of the inquiry, chair Sir Martin Moore-Bick condemned LFB's "serious shortcomings" and systemic failures in its response to the fire.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

“Hey, can you tell me which phase of meiosis this cell is currently in?”

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller

Yang and his colleagues are now investigating whether a tightly focused laser can switch the material between this quantum many-body phase and other phases.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

After 14 patient but quick phases, the Wallabies whipped the ball from right to left to find fly-half Ben Donaldson free to score in the corner.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Earlier this year, the EU inked a landmark agreement with India and has progressing trade agreement negotiations in various phases with Malaysia and Thailand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

At UTK, Michael Koehler used in situ X-ray diffraction to follow changes in the phases of the reaction mixture as the chemistry unfolded.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

Such faith, like the faith in sunrise or the phases of the moon, sustained me.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Meanwhile, talks between the U.S. and Iran focused on a phased deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

It believed only eight of these rings were constructed around the world, but by the end of the 1960s the technology was phased out and replaced by satellites.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

But over the last two decades, the already tiny space for indie film has grown even smaller, being phased out by streamers — the place indies go to die — and YouTube.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

In addition to spreading out the strain on manufacturing partners, Apple’s phased rollout also directs more attention to its higher-end phones.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 7, 2026

His taste buds seemed to have phased into the shadow world permanently.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

Momentum has been building toward phasing out oil in Los Angeles for years, but the city has never rescinded a permit before.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

“You can vary the impact on the program’s finances by speeding up or slowing down the phasing schedule,” said Andrew Eschtruth, the director of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

Five of the nine water companies are now phasing this out over concerns it "might be sending the wrong signal on water efficiency", the industry regulator Ofwat has said.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

Among them is Syngenta, a Swiss-based company owned by the Chinese government that was one of paraquat’s largest manufacturers, which said it was phasing out the product globally for commercial reasons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

The period between the late eighteenth and the mid-nineteenth centuries, wrote Michel Foucault, saw “the disappearance of torture as a public spectacle” and the gradual phasing out of corporal punishments.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover




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