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The arrangement also allows Australia to pull out—forcing the rugby team from the Australian league—if Papua New Guinea makes a security deal with a country outside the region.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
The ads can reach teenagers in most corners of France - including Paris, Nantes and Lille - and serve as a powerful pull to Marseille, and the Quartier Nord, police say.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
Two years later, over Bass’ protest, the supervisors voted to pull nearly all of their money out of a joint city-county agency created to address the crisis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2026
When referee Farai Hallam was sent to the pitchside monitor for a VAR review for a shirt pull by Nobel Mendy on Kai Havertz, surely everyone inside the Emirates was expecting a penalty.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
“How’d he figure we were going to pull something on Tansy for her first day?”
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
Afterward, the researchers modeled a binary star system in which a white dwarf gradually pulls matter from a neighboring companion star.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
We both sat down on the curb — we’re pondering how we’ve got ourselves into this impossible situation when a limo pulls up to the light.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
“And that could be what pulls this government together.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
The company gets about $30 whenever a lender pulls your credit, or $60 for a couple.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026
She pulls a few books off the shelves and hands them to Teddy, and then she leads us to an alcove with a rainbow shag rug on the ground and plastic bins on shelves.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
A different version of James Bond, who exists in a different universe, would be easily pulled off in an era where audiences are used to major film franchises restarting in a different world or timeline.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
In a plasma, which consists of electrically charged particles, these magnetic field lines can be pulled, twisted, and stretched.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026
"I did not hear the verdict as I was being pulled by the cops."
From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026
Heathcote had left by the time Altrincham pulled off their greatest cup exploit - knocking out first division Birmingham City at St Andrews in 1986 in what remains one of the competition's biggest shocks.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
In fact, it was exactly that—the perfect quiet of his cottage—that pulled him out of these thoughts.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Worth Girvan and Gaspar were virtually tied on election night Tuesday, but on Thursday Worth Girvan began pulling ahead as more mail-in ballots were counted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026
Analysts Meta Marshall and Antonio Jaramillo also note the possibility of customers pulling orders forward ahead of price increases.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
While Russian groups are not being ruled out, experts say Iranian hacktivists or nation state hackers - or even teenagers pulling pranks - could also be the culprits.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
Another potential bonus would be a pulling forward of investment and M&A activity to beat a shift in policy in 2028.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
Me and Charlie spent noontime behind the boys’ privy, pulling charred wood off the back of it.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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