proceed
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There are so many ethical dilemmas in high school sports that earning a teaching credential or gaining life experiences from participating in sports won’t always provide a clear path on how to proceed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
Abbott’s office did not respond to a request for comment about guidance provided to local governments about how to proceed without state funding.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
"We had previously reached an agreement based on the MOU that was signed in Pakistan...if the United States agrees to proceed in that way, everything will return to the way it was before," he added.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
If it decides to proceed, MGM could make its proposal in the coming days, the people said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
I daresay it is only a rat scrambling along the rafters of the adjoining schoolroom: it was a barn before I had it repaired and altered, and barns are generally haunted by rats.—To proceed.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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The company wrote that net proceeds will reduce the company’s debt and facilitate the repurchase of company shares.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
If you have $5 million invested elsewhere, the sale proceeds make up only 10% of your portfolio.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026
If Anthropic proceeds with its offering this year, U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
If it proceeds, Pike would be the first woman to be executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
He was selling them at the school supplies shop in the main corridor and proclaimed that all proceeds would be going to the “maintenance and general betterment” of Riverview Middle School.
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
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The procession last proceeded along Garvaghy Road in 1997 and was barred the following year, soon after a peace accord largely ended three decades of conflict over British rule.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
Protestors, a few dozen, turned up outside the nearest tube stop waving flags as ticket holders streamed towards Lincoln Financial Field - but the concert proceeded largely unfettered.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
“The School of Law symposium operated within the protections of academic freedom and proceeded as planned, with its program, speakers and academic content unchanged,” Frenk wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
One recent morning, I was reading the newspaper in a sleepy Manhattan cafe when two young women sat beside me and proceeded to conduct a work call on speakerphone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The kids proceeded to push and shove and block and dribble and fake each other out.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
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After being filed, the lawsuit became part of a coordinated proceeding with actions brought by the California attorney general and the city attorneys of Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Wilhelm said the artificial-intelligence build-out is proceeding in a different way from the dot-com boom that began to deflate in 2000.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
The warning triggered a jockeying for control among senior municipal bondholders, bond insurers and junior debtholders offering competing financing that could either stave off a bankruptcy filing or fund the proceeding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
State media later said the risk from that lake was "decreasing" and rescue operations were proceeding "in an orderly manner".
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
They did, but the court proceeding was mostly a glorified fact-finding inquiry.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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