rear
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A council has placed two "concrete Lego-type" blocks at the rear access to the home of an 81-year-old just one week after she won a legal wrangle over access.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
The broad strokes of dark composite cladding along the rocker panels, lower front and rear fascia, and around the wheel wells, signal its soft-road sensibilities—as does the 8.5 inches of ground clearance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
And following an Aug. 26 fire at the Babcock property, which damaged the rear of an adjacent home, Bass and Raman went after each other for not having addressed all those pleas for help.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
Four laps after the restart, Russell was leading a six-car train with Antonelli at the rear.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
Astonishing to see The Bulldog hatless and indoors, unlocking a cash drawer at the rear of the store.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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She rears sheep, and lambing season is just about to get under way.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026
But for the most part, Ferraiolo says, young people have a fear of missing out—a phenomenon that rears its head every time an investment soars, as seen in recent years with cryptocurrency and meme stocks.
From Barron's ● Feb. 24, 2026
Still, the Brisbane speech, which rears its sombreroed head into any Google search of the author, marked a shift in the way Shriver engaged with the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026
This is the dual state that you lived in, and that you worked in, and that must be called out unflinchingly whenever it rears its head, yet, paradoxically, also now more than ever.
From Slate ● Jul. 9, 2025
The horse rears up on its back legs.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
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Insect larvae reared at higher temperatures will develop faster and reach pupation at a smaller size.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
When the eggs hatch, the birds are then reared to point of fledge.
From BBC ● May 31, 2026
For now, February’s retail figures stand as a snapshot of an economy that was briefly gathering strength, before war reared its head.
From Barron's ● Apr. 1, 2026
But then love and marriage reared its head and Burden’s story took a dark turn, which she chronicles with a keen forensic eye in her buzzy new memoir, “Strangers.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2026
They were all there, all of them: the twins, poised and alert in the windowsill; Francis, with his back to me; Henry beside him; and Bunny across the table, reared back in his chair.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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In the warm, dry spring a glut of glorious foundresses – new queens – emerged from hibernation to start their nests alone, carrying out all the nest building, egg laying, foraging and brood rearing.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
John does all that too, on top of his parents blasting all fear out of him while rearing him to expect the universe to be unforgiving.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
A male Montagu's harrier, known as "AU" by conservationists, bred with two different females, rearing six chicks across two nests on English farmland.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Christopher Nolan’s version of the Trojan Horse—35 feet tall and rearing on hind legs—was half buried in sand on the Atlantic coast.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
I turn my laptop to shield my face that’s exploding in unnamed emotions, each one rearing itself and layering on top of the others before I can express it.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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