procedure
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A grand jury, however, might convene only once a month, requiring the need for an expedited procedure.
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026
Napoli star McTominay has scored four goals in seven outings since recovering from a minor heart procedure.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
State regulators have set hospital inpatient procedure rates for all payers since the 1970s, and in 2014 the state reformed the model by capping each hospital’s total annual revenue under global budgets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
The bankruptcy procedure "is part of BHV's relaunch, not its failure," the company said, adding that the landmark store opposite Paris City Hall that employs 700 people will remain open.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
He tottered across the roof tiles, spraying his fig trees like it was the safest, sanest procedure in the world.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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Make your investing decisions as a result of rules and procedures, rather than ad hoc.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Eliminating auxiliary qubits and repeated resets could reduce the equipment and procedures needed to retrieve quantum information.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026
Earlier, a UK government spokesperson said there were "well-established procedures for dealing with cases like this" and that the risk to the public remains low.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
"Long-established emergency ballot procedures have been implemented, where completed ballots are secured, under bipartisan control, and will be counted," it said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
Seeing that the priest had properly and assiduously observed all the procedures, millions of devout French Catholics behaved as if God really existed in the consecrated bread and wine.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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