plan
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Four sources have told the paper that a flight plan submitted by a military aircraft led to a shutdown of British skies for several hours, causing a "meltdown" within the wider air traffic control system.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
The seamers often stuck to a short-ball plan, with fielders back on the boundary.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
“I believe Anthropic is trying its best,” he added, “but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence, and are not clearly on track to.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
The plan could include quantifiable economic and social targets if Hong Kong follows mainland China’s approach, ANZ Research Chief Economist for Greater China Raymond Yeung said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
"In the old days," Don Quixote had said, "knights won islands and kingdoms. They gave them to their squires to govern. I plan to do the same with you, Sancho, if you become my squire."
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
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The disruptions are adding pressure to the Saudi economy and complicating Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s Vision 2030 plans, which rely on sustained state spending to diversify the economy and finance large-scale infrastructure projects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Dell Technologies and HPE stocks are leading the S&P 500 higher as Oracle’s massive spending plans reinforce optimism about demand for AI data-center hardware.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
Doubtless many punters will have had started to make other plans in the expectation this would all be over swiftly, especially when England racked up 453.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Tesla plans to host an inauguration event on Sept. 24 for the Nevada facility that had previously outlined a production target of 50,000 Semis per year.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
“Without them, we wouldn’t be reading German plans right now, when we need it most. Even Turing’s machine is basically a more sophisticated version of their bomba.”
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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"The surf took the beach we planned this on, and we cannot put tens of thousands of festival-goers on that sand until it's safe," said Mayor Caroline Torosis.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
Yee expects the budget to confirm, rather than defer, planned energy-transition spendings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
We planned to assess both generations across domains of emotional, social, and everyday functioning.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
The 86-year-old said she was too frail to travel to an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland as she had planned to, saying: "Everything I didn't want to happen I'm having to go through now."
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
If Edward Ashton had planned a final act of treachery, the time to attempt it was now.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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The majority of those who carried out the 9/11 attacks were from Saudi Arabia and planning was led by al-Qaeda founder Osama Bin-Laden, scion of a prominent Saudi family.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Here is Fottrell’s warning about how this can create a serious problem affecting her estate planning.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
Prediction markets platform Kalshi is planning to seek regulatory approval to start offering the country’s first regulated perpetual futures tied to single stocks including Tesla, Apple and Nvidia, according to people familiar with the matter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Those figures describe the scale of potential evacuation planning, not a forecast that one tsunami would affect everyone at once.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
For writing ‘ew’ about kissing him, and planning to submit an essay about him in the first place?”
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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