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"Culture and leisure consistently rank as the second most important reason for visiting the district in our on-street surveys."
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Their hitters have fared no better than their pitchers: The Angels rank 26th in the majors in runs scored.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Reserve balances in Florida rank significantly weaker than elsewhere in the country due to legacy state laws that allowed unit owners to vote annually to waive reserve funding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Newyddion S4C understands Edwards' attempt fell far short of winning the competition, with his poem placed in the third grouping of entries - a system used by the judging panel to rank entries.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
The rain had seeped into the garbage cans and in the alley there was the rank odor of wet refuse.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
So far this year, she ranks 14th-fastest worldwide in the 200m, and 25th in the 100m.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Meanwhile, the introduction of the Worthiest of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes in “Captain America: The First Avenger” ranks #52 on a very long list.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
As Germany's Opel slashes its engineering ranks and partners with China's Leapmotor, anxiety is running high in Ruesselsheim, the city it has long dominated.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
A surfer and physical fitness buff, Brambles rose through the ranks quickly, eventually becoming a supervisor in the elite Organized Crime Intelligence Division.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
For most of the women who joined Marina Raskova’s ranks, this was exactly the chance they had dreamed of.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
Nielsen, which releases a weekly ratings ranker for streaming content, also uses hours watched to rank programs.
From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2021
News, the magazine that has already established itself as the most noticed ranker of the nation’s colleges and universities.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2017
“Because I intend on making one that’s a whole lot ranker than we’ve had before.”
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 1, 2014
Named Vice Chief was the ranker, Major General Archibald Nye, who is only 46.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Stan's case the natural result had been to make a young man fit only to join as a ranker or to stand with his back to a mirror in a suspect card-room.
From A Crooked Mile by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
"Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet," Ms Kennedy told the magazine.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2024
The feminist with a fundamentally optimistic vision, who believed that people, especially men, could be better, might be soon replaced by the rankest misogynist.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2020
The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril.
From Washington Post ● May 10, 2018
For the F.A., claiming to be the world’s policeman while turning a blind eye to apparent offenses at home would have been the rankest hypocrisy.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2016
Raisins and nuts and dried ber-ries, but no lemon, that was the rankest sort of southron heresy—which was queer, since he always took lemon in his morning beer.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
McIlroy's struggles were obvious particularly in from tee to green where he ranked 62nd out of 68 players for strokes gained.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Arsenal and Manchester City were the main players in the title race last season and they have been ranked as having the same level of difficulty for their first set of matches.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
She was the only woman who has ever been ranked in the world’s overall top 10, and famously notched wins against the leading men, including Garry Kasparov.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 was released last month and is the best on the market, according to Arena, while its more expensive Claude Fable 5 is also highly ranked.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
We were both twenty-four years old when you were born, the normal age for most Americans, but among the class we soon found ourselves, we ranked as teenage parents.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Rep. Robert Garcia, the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, subsequently demanded answers about both the outbreak and the circumstances surrounding that meeting.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
They’re ranking members of the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee, respectively.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Note that, in each case, the newsletters recommending the stock are doing so for reasons having nothing to do with where it stands in the market-cap ranking.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
But players aged 21 or under featured for 1,088 minutes for the club last season, ranking Everton only 17th in the Premier League.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
And when Josh wanted to start a weekly ranking of the best fifth-grade athletes, Cara told him the list would have to include girls as well as boys.
From "The Landry News" by Andrew Clements
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