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phase

[fayz] / feɪz /


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Richard Bland, Cameron Tringale and Brendan Steele are three of the few players to commit to the second phase of the breakaway circuit.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Asked whether De la Espriella's administration would also pursue efforts to phase out fossil fuels despite the president's support for fracking, the minister said yes but added that "reality" must be taken into account.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

Tim and I never got to play that because they’re the polar opposite of the honeymoon phase.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

The ban is due to come into effect on 7 August next year, and is followed by a two-year transition period to phase out the practice.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

In each new phase, called an instar, a caterpillar might change color or texture—very confusing to naturalists like Maria.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman

Saudi forces have withstood such waves of attacks in the earlier phases of the Yemen war and even managed to curtail them over time, analysts said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

The particle had two possible paths around the loop, but the magnetic flux changed their relative quantum phases.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

Treasurys has been going on for months, but it has moved through several different phases.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 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

Like I would have an operation with phases.

From "Lawn Boy" by Gary Paulsen

The company said it expects a phased return to full operations at the GKN site during this quarter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

“Safely releasing frontier capabilities at this level requires a phased approach,” Google said in the post.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

"Safely releasing frontier capabilities at this level requires a phased approach," wrote Koray Kavukcuoglu, Google's chief AI architect, in a blog post announcing the model.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

Constance added that she had received reassurances from health chiefs that capacity could be expanded, but said it was important to do that in "a phased, planned way".

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

But first they were unmade, their edges fading like the evanescent white bird, Wraith, as it phased through the skin of the sky.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

It praised “artificial intelligence and machine translation” as “cost-effective methods for bridging language barriers and reducing inefficiencies with the translation process,” and called for phasing out “unnecessary multilingual offerings.”

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

Unlike recent COPs -- where nearly 200 nations forged landmark pacts on phasing down coal or moving away from fossil fuels -- the negotiation agenda at COP31 is light on big-ticket items.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 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

Wolverine, the company that makes Hush Puppies, was thinking of phasing out the shoes that made them famous.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell


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