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"These are issues that concern the United States and do not affect Greek-American relations," deputy prime minister Costis Hatzidakis told state TV ERT.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
Specifically, the prime minister would pledge to speed up the delivery of lightweight multirole missiles that can help bring down fast jet-powered Russian drones.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
German airline Lufthansa has won the contest to buy nearly half of TAP Air Portugal, the Portuguese prime minister said Wednesday, after months of efforts to privatise the state-rescued airline.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
Vulnerable accessories linked into a network are among hackers’ prime targets, expanding what technicians call the attack surface.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
Spy gear that can eavesdrop on all the prime minister's top-secret communications and then uplink classified information to a satellite, which Dr. Loofah will download and sell to the highest bidder.
From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein
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The Riemann Hypothesis, often considered the most difficult and important problem in all of mathematics, would serve as a Rosetta stone revealing the secrets of the primes.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2026
"Our joint approach brings together three leading global defence primes at the heart of UK combat air capability, offering the UK a next-generation, cost‑effective, capable and reliable solution," a BAE Systems spokesperson said.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
The Pentagon has also prioritized research and development, publicly criticizing the traditional defense primes for allocating cash to dividends and stock buybacks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
Big orders for missile replenishment should benefit all defense primes, but especially RTX, whose business is more missile-heavy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
He stayed up at night, trying to figure out what it is in the delivery of a tennis serve that primes his judgment.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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For those with financial means, it was a kind of gilded servitude, in which the young sacrificed their waking lives to teachers who primed them for the concert hall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Australia are primed to earn a statement victory and end South Africa's unbeaten run under captain Temba Bavuma after Matt Renshaw's remarkable Test continued on day four of their series opener in Durban.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
"What we found in patient samples was that intestinal cells are primed to die. Even in patients with essentially no symptoms, there's still this persistent problem sitting there."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
The June to August season was defined by severe, back-to-back heatwaves that shut schools, dried up rivers and primed the land for devastating wildfires.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
When you took that sentence-completion test, you didn’t know that you were being primed to think “old.”
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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Nasdaq is changing its procedures to put SpaceX in funds based on it and priming the pump to do the same with Anthropic and OpenAI, which have historically burned through cash.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026
As Barron’s wrote last November, the company has been priming investors for the loss of Apple’s sales for years, and it may already be factored into the stock price.
From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026
And the earlier the snow melts, the more time plants and soils have to dry out in the summer heat, priming the landscape for large wildfires, Schwartz said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2025
Taken together, these two lines of research—the broad immune priming revealed by Covid mRNA vaccines and the precision targeting achieved by cancer-specific mRNA therapies—are beginning to converge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025
So she held on, taking huge gulps of air, tensing her muscles, priming them for flight.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
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