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Amid a public outcry, Interior Minister Igor Klymenko acknowledged the case has "sparked a broader discussion about the behaviour of certain service members in the rear."
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
As it backed into a gate at the rear of the empty museum, the truck was greeted by a handful of staff and a small media contingent including AFP journalists.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
The parked car sustained “major rear damage,” and its front tire was “forced onto the curb.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2026
Another vehicle struck the rear passenger side of the car the 55-year-old was driving, causing it to spin and flip, they said.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
When he tucked it in I saw the same little V-shaped rip at the top of the rear seam of his waist that had seen for the last couple of weeks.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
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
Real life, in short, rears its ugly head.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2025
"He's posing," the spider-keeper jests as it rears up on its back legs.
From BBC ● May 16, 2025
Aaron rears up in them, huge and terrifying.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
There we met 60-year-old Rameshwar Yadav, a former private-school teacher who now reared buffaloes for a living.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
Patel’s instinct to use force to fix his reputation reared its head again with the girlfriend scandal.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 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
She reared back in surprise—she didn’t know she was expected to speak!
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
Now those fears seem to be rearing their head once more.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
“At least, I hope they take the horse off that car,” he said, referring to the Ferrari logo of a rearing stallion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
Some dairy farms send calves out to third-party calf ranches for rearing.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
More people are diversifying their income and there is less emphasis on rearing livestock on common grazing land.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026
At the mention of a horse race, the children began snorting and rearing up like three spirited ponies.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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