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The regular season has never been a problem for the Yankees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Maternal mortality has become widely recognized as an urgent public health problem in the United States, although it took decades for the issue to receive sustained attention.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
The problem, say staff, is the pressure they are under - from the sheer number of people in Accident and Emergency to the complexity of many of the patients in hospital.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
That still leaves a problem that cropped up time and again over the regular season and again in the NLDS: inconsistency atop the lineup.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
As if he had solved the problem, and was tickled to death about it, the big monkey turned a few somersaults.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
The work led by Liu suggests that it may be possible to address both problems with a single therapeutic strategy.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
Nearly four in five have witnessed patients abandon treatment because of problems with the process.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026
Between the hours Urschel spent fending off nose tackles and studying eigenvalue problems, he barely saw the woman he would marry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Josh Allen is elite, but the Bills aren’t impervious to problems — check out the Chargers game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
One of the problems with having Mr. Kravitz for art was that you never knew when it was safe to get a fresh sheet of paper.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
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