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And everyone promised to water the saplings faithfully while they are still small and their roots are beginning to reach out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Many devotees travel through steep Himalayan valleys to reach the temples, which are open for only part of the year because of harsh winter conditions.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Halloween spending is expected to reach $13.5 billion this year, according to the National Retail Federation, with $4.1 billion alone being spent on candy.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
In the last decades of the 19th century, the reach and strength of the SP’s power — and the abuse of it — became too much for Californians to stomach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
I reach up and shut the garage door.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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Industry experts say India still has time before it reaches a demographic crossroad.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Amazon may pay for equipment before it reaches normal operating capacity, while accounting spreads the equipment’s cost over its useful life through depreciation.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
The second debate reaches well beyond the Fed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
Because Carpenter reaches for all of the concession-stand classics — M&Ms, Red Vines, Hershey’s bars — they wanted to incorporate fun, nostalgic, textural elements.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
In the telling of any great puffin battle, there reaches a point when the puffin fearlessly avoids pain and injury by courageously keeping out of reach of their enemies.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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For the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, U.S. publicly held federal debt reached 100% of gross domestic product for the first time in 80 years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
Bumper and Segura could not be immediately reached for comment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
Another time, his canine partner led him hiking up a steep mountainside for two hours until they reached a man with a broken leg who was close to dying from hypothermia.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
TikTok and YouTube were also named as defendants in the case, but both had already reached settlements with the plaintiffs, known by their initials SJ and KDB, their lawyers said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
Chitto reached his own arm out, shielding hers from the fire below.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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She had picked up £25,000 for reaching round three of the PDC World Championship at Alexandra Palace seven years ago after beating Ted Evetts and Mensur Suljovic before losing to Chris Dobey.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
The UN biodiversity summit enters a final day Friday with nations still far from reaching a deal to revive a faltering pledge to stop destroying nature.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
System-wide sales growth, which measures all the sales generated by the entire network of restaurants, decelerated to 6.2% from 6.9% a year earlier, reaching $12.97 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
DoorDash shares were up 3% on Thursday following its announcement, reaching $177.62 per share with a market value of $75 billion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
“Oh goodness, here,” she says, reaching behind her to open the top drawer of her desk.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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