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Rwanda has used sports high-profile sports sponsorship to raise its international profile.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
Hours later, he took the stage in Michigan alongside Abdul El-Sayed, a candidate with a rising profile who Democrats hope can help the party retain a US Senate seat.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
According to her IMDb profile, her last credit was in 2025 for the queer romantic comedy “Things Like This.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
At the time of her resignation she blamed burnout; she didn’t cite a principled reason until the New Yorker ran a gushing profile in November 2020.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
Beyond Lord Peter’s fine profile I saw all the Upstairs Cranstons in a clump.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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Click on the tickers for more about each company, including corporate profiles, analysts’ ratings and consensus price targets.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
Reams of magazine profiles spotlight everyday people choosing to share their lives with an AI boyfriend, girlfriend or spouse.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
Its heads, Katz and David Fenkel, keep remarkably low profiles for studio chiefs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
The company told its customers that hackers are in possession of detailed profiles of potentially millions of the company's users - including names, addresses, phone numbers, emails, customer numbers and dates of birth.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
He stared at the darkness around him, and at the profiles that gradually emerged from this gloom, which was so like the gloom of Hell.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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"Our recording captured a clear, permanent mark distinguishing the two very first cells, letting us trace nearly every cell we profiled from the embryo back to one or the other," said Kim.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
A 2025 Wired article entitled “Your Next Pet Could Be a Glowing Rabbit” profiled a Texas company seeking to create gene-edited pets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
“I was in love with the frisson of transgression,” said Anna, one of the disillusioned former believers profiled in Sam Adler-Bell’s March 2026 investigation “The women leaving the new right.”
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
Food trends columnist Adam Chandler profiled Lev Sercarz about cooking in this new era of American eating, and received suggestions for the best seasonings—from sumac to smoked salt—for spicing up even the simplest meals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Twenty feet from us stood a figure, straight, motionless, profiled, the scarlet hieb and white shirt an inlay of bright enamel against the green of the high grass.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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“Many Hindu families in Ohio live with fear—fear of ICE raids, profiling based on accent or appearance and the constant anxiety of family separation,” Pyakurel wrote.
From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2026
This summer André, alongside fellow comedian Clayton English, settled a racial profiling suit against Clayton County police in Georgia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
They had not been charged because profiling and documentation were still under way before the deaths, he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 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
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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