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Your severance check and the new GPUs come out of the same pocket.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
Aged 29, Bushby said he walked out of Punta Arenas, Chile, with a few hundred dollars in his pocket and turned north for home.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
The cancellation was done through a maneuver known as a pocket rescission.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2026
The current manager, Pat Murphy, had some of Kuenn’s folksy eccentricity, quizzing his young children at press conferences and once touting the midgame deliciousness of a pancake stuffed into his uniform’s back pocket.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
He pulls a fifty from the much smaller roll of cash in his pocket and hands it to me.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh said the bill would help to "build a clean energy future which people feel in their pockets, households and communities, ensuring support reaches those who need it most".
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
Not only do we carry the horrors of the universe in our pockets, we spend most of our waking hours gazing into that abyss in the name of staying informed.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026
“Companies with the deepest pockets have an obvious advantage. Those are the hyperscalers,” he wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
Since the start of this AI-driven bull market, pockets of outperformance for healthcare have been confined to a handful of sharp but short-lived rallies with little meaningful follow-through, Colas said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
I grabbed as much as I could carry in my hands, mouth, & pockets.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
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Five years on, Wiegman has pocketed two more European Championships and acquired another silver medal on the global stage.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
His team also pocketed a hefty sum -- several million dollars -- for travelling to Luanda in November 2025 for a friendly marking Angola's 50th Independence Day celebrations.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
According to forms filed with the IRS, in 2023 she pocketed $907,923, a payout that included a $495,000 bonus, a number that exceeded her base pay at the time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
They also found that Ghaffar had breached his fiduciary duty by diverting an investment opportunity for himself, and pocketed more than $112,000 worth of American Express reward points tied to business expenses paid by Paulson.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
Hurriedly she shelved the book and pocketed the keys.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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Surveillance footage from that day shows Paxton spotting the pen and pocketing it swiftly.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
But with rebates flowing, counterparties are now suing some of these companies for pocketing those higher costs.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 22, 2026
Prosecutor Chris Paxton KC said the total monetary value of the fraud was £86,868 and that Bush had conned 226 people who paid him for funeral plans, pocketing more than £550,000 over an 11-year period.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Fund management would operate solely in the interest of its customers, pocketing no profits of its own since it would have no separate shareholders!
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
“No worries,” he says, pocketing the silverware roll in the small black apron around his waist.
From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden
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