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Saeed Laylaz, Tehran-based economic expert, told AFP that the new US measures were of a piece with Trump's so-called "maximum pressure" approach, which he has pursued for years.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
The result isn’t a piece of art but rather “a pile of art,” Zucker said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
OpenAI founder Sam Altman is also a watch guy, whose wrist has sported styles including a roughly $650,000 piece from another Swiss maker, Greubel Forsey.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
One of them is typing furiously as his eyes dart from the screen to the robot: "The idea is it will grab that cylindrical piece and move it over there."
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
“I’m done,” Teddy announces, even though he’s only eaten about a quarter of a piece of pizza.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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Ice masses of this size can remain in the ocean for years, slowly fragmenting into smaller pieces that may become progressively harder to detect and follow.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
Nearby fields were littered with broken deckchairs, scraps of fiberglass insulation and pieces of wire fencing ripped apart by the fierce winds that struck the village and its surroundings.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
The company’s ready-made pieces are only sold in the U.S. at Material Good, a watch and jewelry store in SoHo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Some 75% of sales of pieces including amethyst, sea glass and agates from her business, CindyLouWho2, based in Calgary, Alberta, come from Americans.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
I wait for the pieces to click into place inside my brain, but they don’t.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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It’s a collection of songs pieced together from perfect-seeming snippets heard while passing open doors.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026
Investigators have pieced together much of what they know about Burke and Hernandez’s allegedly illegal relationship from a search of the singer’s cellphone, which was seized last September.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
Ivana helped run a sporting goods store and pieced together a budget for her daughter’s early career.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
From what biographers have pieced together, Ko was born in Osaka in 1952 to parents originally from Jeju Island, which sits off the southern coast of what is now South Korea.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
Over the course of the evening—through phone calls, the radio, and the evening news—we pieced together what had happened that morning.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
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Pipeline developers are piecing together an alternative to Keystone XL using a trio of proposed pipelines to deliver heavy Canadian crude.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
He said detectives were piecing together how the "sensitive and complex" incident happened.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Chief government veterinary officer Beth Cookson said scientists were still piecing together the details of how H5 might be spreading.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
Trump’s emissaries—his son-in-law Jared Kushner and his realtor friend Steve Witkoff—came close to piecing together such a deal through Pakistan emissaries.
From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2026
Peter Paul Peckleman’s claim to fame was further confirmation that piecing together the picture puzzle would show Charles how to escape from the library.
From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein
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