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Chandra Scott, executive director of Alabama Possible, which oversees the state’s direct-admission program, likens the sign-up form for students to a social-media profile: something they can do “in their sleep.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Chelsea appointed Xabi Alonso as manager, believing he had the profile and authority to command the dressing room.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Petronas’ strong credit profile, state support and integrated operations should remain supportive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
She wasn’t invited to the Los Angeles premiere and was “deliberately” cut out of major trade articles and interviews, the suit says, including a May profile of Harris and Lane that didn’t name her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Just like he knows me well enough that I would check his Instagram anyway since his profile isn’t private like mine.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
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The company tried to report and block the trolls, but they kept popping up with new profiles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
“That said, the banks’ AA-range credit ratings reflect superior underlying credit profiles that are well-positioned to deal with any further near-term deterioration in the credit environment,” O’Brien and his team said in a research report.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
"Pollen has been very useful in identifying different coatings where the molecular profiles were identical."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
“That have complex flavor profiles, that are not just juice and a splash of soda or a lime or something.”
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
If you looked only at the dark parts on the side, you could see two profiles.
From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech
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Short already was profiled in the 2026 Netflix documentary “Marty, Life Is Short,” nominated for three Emmys in its own right.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Looking at England's equaliser in the Euro 2024 final, the ability of individual players - profiled properly - to come up with solutions was clear.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
Charniak, 85, is one of several families profiled in the new book “Grandfamilies: Stories of Children and the Loving Relatives Who Raise Them.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 8, 2026
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution profiled two Argentine-Americans living in North Carolina who had supported Trump because of his tough stance against undocumented immigrants.
From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2026
He gets invited on news shows and profiled in magazines, and he has been the subject of a documentary by the filmmaker Errol Morris, all because of a brain that appears to defy description.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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The genetic profiling revealed that female belugas regularly switch mates across breeding seasons, also over a long reproductive life.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2026
But activists say hundreds have been pushed across the border from Assam in recent months without due legal process, often based on ethnic profiling.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
“Hatred has no place here, and I will continue to fight against all forms of discrimination, including the racial profiling and scapegoating of Chinese Americans,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
Additional analysis using selective ribosome profiling showed that DHX29 is more likely to associate with ribosomes that are reading non-optimal codons.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 9, 2026
Nearly all of the cases alleging racial profiling in drug-law enforcement were brought pursuant to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and its implementing regulations.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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