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The company is working to improve its financial profile, cutting costs from the business and issuing an improved operating expense outlook for the year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Buxton started working for Virgin Atlantic two years ago, according to his LinkedIn profile, external.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
He dropped in and out of show business, and his occasional reemergence was cause for a profile.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
He passed on opportunities to raise his profile, such as a tour in Japan with Mick Jagger.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
I’d found there were ways to keep a low profile when I needed to, helped by the Secret Service’s willingness to be flexible.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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People with high-risk biological profiles such as cluster 5 may require more intensive care or treatments designed to address their specific metabolic problems.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
“We also want to highlight that the companies’ cash flow profiles complement each other well.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
“During an arrival maneuver, an aircraft flew lower than standard profiles, resulting in a disturbance on the beach that affected civilian chairs and umbrellas,” a Navy spokesperson said in a statement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
The research was repeated using teen profiles in the US and EU, producing similar results.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Most human groups are a scattershot mix of HLA profiles, which means that almost always some people in the group will not get sick when exposed to a particular pathogen.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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A few months later, the attorney said, Cancino was involved in another questionable stop, this time of a pedestrian who also later lodged a complaint alleging he was profiled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 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
In fact, the people profiled here are so skilled, their motions so routinely perfect, that the only real surprises are the mishaps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
He profiled directly in front of the bull, drew the sword out of the folds of the muleta and sighted along the blade.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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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
“It helps place the city of Los Angeles on a path of ending racial profiling by LAPD,” said Chauncee Smith, of Catalyst California, a group that advocates for racial justice.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
The paper, titled "Single-nucleus chromatin accessibility profiling identifies cell types and functional variants contributing to major depression" by Anjali Chawla and Gustavo Turecki et al., was published in Nature Genetics.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 23, 2026
"Parents deserve independent confirmation that the moderation is sufficient, that help systems are effective, and that age checks aren't used for commercial profiling."
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026
The movement regularly holds protests against police killings of African Americans and against such issues as racial profiling, police brutality, and racial inequality in the United States criminal justice system.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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